Martin Walsh represents a narrow and exclusionary constituency whose primary objective is unfettered access to taxpayer dollars. In their worldview, the purpose of these revenues is to support their increasingly exorbitant pay and benefit schemes to the exclusion of other services citizens now enjoy. His interests are not aligned with middle-class residents struggling to prosper in an increasingly expensive and innovation-driven city. With this last thought in mind, it is equally disconcerting he enjoys strong support among local officials whose constituents will be most adversely affected if he becomes mayor.
Powerful.