U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch expressed measured help for Mayor Michelle Wu’s reelection in a TV interview Sunday, however stated they’ve “work to do” collectively.
“I just wish my office and her administration could work better together,” Lynch stated on WBZ’s Keller at Giant section Sunday when requested if the mayor deserves a second time period.
“We seem to be as loggerheads on some things, and that’s why I have to give her a B at this point.”
Mayor Michelle Wu formally launched her marketing campaign for reelection in March. The incumbent presently faces Josh Kraft, son of billionaire New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft and head of Kraft Household Philanthropies; neighborhood activist Domingos DaRosa; and Metropolis Corridor worker Kerry Augustin.
Of the reelection, Lynch stated Sunday he offers Wu some “credit,” highlighting the testimony she was known as to offer in entrance of the Republican-led Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform on sanctuary cities in early March. Lynch is a member of the Home committee, and through her testimony, Wu known as Boston the “safest major city” and pushed again on federal officers claims about immigration insurance policies.
“Some of the things she’s struggling with are not of her making, the economy, things like that,” Lynch stated. “But I give her an ‘A’ for effort. And she did nobly and proudly down in Congress in terms of her testimony before Congress in a hostile environment. I give her great credit on that.”
The Congressman, representing Boston inside the eighth district of Massachusetts, didn’t straight reply whether or not Wu deserves a second time period however spoke usually favorably of the mayor.
“Let’s put it this way: I think she’ll do much better job than her opponent, going forward,” stated Lynch. “I really do believe that. But we have work to do. We have work to do.”
Lynch additionally spoke on the ICE arrest and detention of the Turkish PhD at Tufts, Rumeysa Ozturk. Ozturk, who co-authored a pro-Palestinian op-ed final 12 months, was taken by ICE in March and has been detained in Louisiana for a few month.
“She’s a Fulbright Scholar,” stated Lynch. “She’s here with a with a valid visa. She is a legal resident here in the United States to take advantage of our marvelous Tufts University. If we start snatching kids off the street and putting them in detention centers, shipping them 1,700 miles to Louisiana, if that’s the way you’re going to treat kids who come here, our reputation will suffer greatly.”
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