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There are certain jobs you don’t want to get, no matter how prestigious they might seem at first, because once you’re picked, it’s only a matter of time before you’re either disgraced, exiled, imprisoned, or even dead.
For instance, boss of the Gambino Crime Family, anchor of the CBS Evening News, or head terrorist for Hamas, Hezbollah or ISIS.
And to those dead-end jobs, you can add this one:
Latest poster gal for DEI politics in the City of Boston.
Am I right, Tania Fernandes Anderson, the next convicted felon member of the Boston City Council?
She is just the latest in a long line of uber-woke frauds who were the subject of innumerable slobbering agitprop puff pieces in regime-controlled Boston media. She follows in the footsteps of, among others:
Monica Cannon-Grant.
Rachael Rollins.
Dianne Wilkerson.
Claudine Gay.
Kendra Lara.
Tania seemed to have it all going for her. So many “firsts” – first (former) illegal alien, first African-born, first Muslim on the City Council.
And now she becomes the first African illegal alien Muslim to ever be convicted of a felony while serving on the Boston City Council.
Welcome to the DEI Hall of Shame, Tania.
All these crooked, corrupt flame-outs follow pretty much the same pattern. They’ve all been coddled and pampered by guilt-ridden rich white liberals all their lives to the point that they assume everything will be handed to them, as long as they scream “Racism!” loud enough.
Every one of these race grifters has taken the scams to new levels, but TFA absolutely tried to shoot the moon.
Think about Julia Mejia, Boston city councilor but a mere runner-up in these sweepstakes. She too is a first – “the first Afro-Latina to sit on the Boston City Council.”
Anyway, Julia Mejia’s mother was “undocumented.” That’s a resume-enhancer in modern Boston politics. But wait, Tanya can top that – she herself came into the country to go on welfare as an illegal alien.
She didn’t become a US citizen until 2019, although by then she’d enjoyed the usual Democrat career trajectory of welfare masquerading as jobs – counselor, service coordinator, outreach manager, intervention provider, etc. etc.
Whatever any of her rivals for Victim of the Year could claim, Tania can top.
Ayanna Pressley, city councilor turned Squad Congresswoman, married a jailbird who did 10 years for drug crimes.
But Tania beat Ayanna easily on the marriage front – she got hitched to a first-degree convicted murderer. And for a bonus, her bloodthirsty husband’s first name is Tanzerious, which is so much more street than Ayanna’s ex-con husband, Conan Harris.
In these DEI sweepstakes, you need to have a memorable quote that everyone always remembers.
For Julia Mejia, the first Afro-Latin, etc., it’s this message she delivered on social media:
“For those of you who are wondering if I am using drugs, answer is absolutely not!”
As for Tania, who can ever forget her immortal shriek at City Hall after she was forced to fire her sister and her son from their $140,000 worth of hack jobs because of the evil white man’s anti-nepotism laws:
“What the bleep does a black woman have to do on this bleeping Council to get some respect as a black woman?”
She was just honoring the tradition of her community – the Boston community that she flopped into for a free lifetime ride, not the one that she really comes from, which is Africa.
Tania is going to prison for grabbing $7,000 cash in a bathroom at City Hall – a kickback from one of her other relatives that she hired and then gave a “bonus” to.
In that, Tania was following in the footsteps of one of her predecessors as Roxbury city councilor – Chuck “Superfly” Turner, who grabbed a grand and was lugged to Club Fed. Another racist frame!
As a female crooked DEI pol, Tania’s crime mimicked ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson from, where else, Roxbury. She was recorded on an FBI camera stuffing $1,000 into her bra.
They’re all from the 02120 zip code. And they all end up with a different kind of number, from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Wilkerson’s was 21757-038. Turner’s was 80641-038.
Like Tania, Wilkerson was continuing a tradition in her Second Suffolk Senate District – being a jailbird. She was the third convicted pol in a row to serve as the solon from Roxbury. Two other thugs, Bill Owens and Royal Bolling Sr., had swapped the seat back and forth for decades before she gave Roxbury yet another of its perennial “fresh starts.”
The name Kendra Lara is now fading from political memory. She retired from the Boston City Council after a brief and shining moment when she was the poster gal for Boston DEI Politics.
It was 2023 and she crashed into a house in JP while driving an unregistered, uninsured, uninspected vehicle with no driver’s license.
She’s lucky she wasn’t charged with impersonating an illegal alien? And did I mention that Councilor Lara’s son, who was injured, is named Zaire. Good name! Almost as good as Tania’s second son (not by Tanzerious). He goes by Shah Mohammed.
Kendra could have been a contender. After all, her c.v. included a stint as “Director of Radical Philanthropy” at some place. She was “anchored by a socialist vision.”
But Kendra was soon gone, much like Marilyn Moseby. Remember her? She was a Dorchester girl, moved to Baltimore and became the top prosecutor in that failed city before she became… a convicted felon.
METCO Marilyn went down on mortgage fraud and perjury raps. Dorchester Proud!
But the queen, I think, remains Monica Cannon-Grant. She had the BLM franchise to steal in Boston. And she remains at large – the new date for her federal trial on corruption charges involving more than $1 million in fraud and thievery is Oct. 25.
Everyone mentioned above has gotten innumerable wet kisses and sob stories from the ladies who lunch who now dominate the Boston “news” media. But Monica Cannon-Grant was the capo di tutti fraudi.
She was the Boston Globe’s “Bostonian of the Year.”
Boston Magazine dubbed her “the best social justice advocate in Boston?”
The Boston Celtics called her “a hero among us.”
Tania was plenty crooked, but she’s never risen to the level (or the weight) of Monica Cannon-Grant. The Globe will never name her Bostonian of the Year. The month, maybe, but not the year.
So farewell then Tania Fernandes Anderson. In her first campaign, she pledged “affordable housing” for her constituents. Now she’s gonna get some, complements of the Bureau of Prisons.
Write when you get your BOP number, Tania, and once you’re incarcerated, maybe you can arrange for some conjugal visits with your better half and fellow jailbird, Tanzerious Anderson.
Look on the bright side. After a few months, you’ll get sprung and Trump will deport your shiftless Third World rear end right back to Africa where you belong.
Tanzerious, on the other hand, is doing life without parole.
Boston Proud!
Originally Published:
An Instagram post that announced their closure on Tuesday evening did not point to any reason for the closure, and requests for comment were not immediately returned.
“Eight years ago, we opened our doors at the Innovation and Design Building with a simple hope: to bring you honest, delicious food and a warm place to share it,” read the post. “What we found instead was a community – regulars who became friends, first dates that turned into anniversaries, celebrations, quiet lunches, and everything in between. You made this restaurant so much more than a place to eat.”
Globe Food Critic Devra First awarded Chickadee 3.5 stars in October 2018, where she wrote how some meals “are magic, everything cooked perfectly, making you swoon.”
At the time, it was also considered one of the earliest restaurants to have opened in the still-industrial far reaches of the Seaport, which was home to ship-repair facilities and cutting-edge design firms, seafood wholesalers, and biotech companies. In terms of location, some said it was ahead of its time.
DaSilva, a three-time James Beard Best Chef: Northeast semifinalist, has led some of the top restaurants across the Greater Boston area. Aside from Barbara Lynch’s flagship No. 9 Park, he opened Spoke Wine Bar in Somerville in 2013. During his time at Spoke, he received a number of accolades and was named one of Zagat’s “30 Under 30” for Boston and earned the title “Rising Star Chef” from StarChefs.
Kilpatrick, who also left Lynch’s group in 2014, worked for the team behind O Ya to help open restaurants in New York. According to his LinkedIn, he started a new job as a regional operations manager for Lark, a boutique hotel management company, in April.
Alexa Gagosz can be reached at alexa.gagosz@globe.com. Follow her @alexagagosz and on Instagram @AlexaGagosz.
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GBH’s Dan Murphy captured Abby Evangelista and her corgi, Rocko, at Sail250 this weekend. “Rocko gets dressed up for lots of occasions … sometimes just to go to the store, and he does so great with meeting people,” Evangelista said. Keep reading for more photos from the tall ships.
A year ago today firefighters were extinguishing flames at the Gabriel House, an assisted living facility in Fall River. Ten people died in the fire, a tragedy for their loved ones and a scary moment for about 18,000 people who live in assisted living facilities across the state.
Now state officials have created new regulations for fire safety in assisted living facilities, going into effect later this month. Fire departments will inspect these facilities once a year, and facilities will need to submit emergency plans and train their workers on what to do in case of a fire.
GBH’s Craig LeMoult found that neither the new regulations nor state or federal fire codes address checking sprinkler systems. Some of the sprinklers at the Gabriel House weren’t working the night of the fire, including the ones in the room where it started.
“Had the sprinklers functioned properly, we’re not having this conversation right now. It is maybe a single fatality fire, but certainly not more than that,” Fall River fire chief Jeffrey Bacon told LeMoult. “The good news is that some of the sprinklers did function. And had they not, we would be here talking about 20, 30, 40 victims.” You can read the full story here.
1. Colleagues and friends are remembering Louisa Gag, a Boston transportation planner killed last week when a truck driver hit her as she rode her bike near the Roxbury Crossing MBTA stop. Gag grew up in Roslindale and worked for the city on expanding the BlueBikes bike-share program. Before that, she worked for the LivableStreets Alliance, co-authoring a plan to help cities stop traffic deaths. You can see her talk about her work in this 2019 video.
“In moments like these, there is a tendency to reduce the person to the way they died and to their activism,” said Stacy Thompson, a former executive director of LivableStreets. “While we may know Louisa as a deep champion of the city and a close advocate, she’s also a Boston Latin [School] kid. She’s also, like, the most infectious, hilarious person you’ve ever met. She’s also a daughter. It’s so important to us right now for her life to not be reduced to how she stopped living.”
2. More than 4,000 nurses are back at work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They went on a one-day strike last week, and hospital administrators kept them from returning to their jobs for another five days. The Massachusetts Nurses Association and Brigham management have been negotiating a contract for seven months, going back and forth over wages, health insurance premiums and staffing levels.
“It’s exciting, but also frightening,” said Christine Forgeron, a cardiac nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “I don’t know what to expect when we go back to our patients. What happens next, because we still don’t have a contract,is the most unsettling part.”
3. Michael Walsh, a Republican candidate for state attorney general, will be on the primary ballot in September despite what Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp called “substantial evidence in the record of voter fraud.” The case began when Adam Roof, executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, submitted a complaint accusing a signature gatherer Walsh’s campaign hired of either falsifying or not meeting state requirements for 1,021 of the 10,677 signatures they submitted. Candidates for statewide office need 10,000 signatures to get onto the ballot.
Karp said that there was indeed evidence that the signatures came not from voters themselves but from a list of registered voters the state’s Republican party gave the signature gatherer. But the case fell on a technicality: state law required Roof, the Democratic party official, to submit his complaint by certified mail, and he did not do so. The state’s highest court still has to decide what will happen to Anne Manning Martin, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor who used the same signature gatherer.
4. Residents of towns around the Quabbin Reservoir flooded into the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority meeting last week to ask for a better deal. The Quabbin supplies clean drinking water for dozens of cities and towns in the eastern part of the state. Right now, the state requires towns like Shrewsbury, Belchertown, Orange and Pelham to keep their development in check to keep the Quabbin clean. Though those towns get some money in return, local officials said it’s not enough to cover their costs.
“We are protecting this watershed by foregoing any type of economic development, which is a cornerstone of providing the basics of education [and] public safety,” said state Rep. Aaron Saunders, of Belchertown. “It’s time for a change, and not an incremental one.”
Dan Murphy / GBH News
Tomorrow is the last full day of Sail Boston, the city’s tall ships celebration. The ships will leave our harbor Thursday morning. GBH photographer Dan Murphy was there over the weekend to capture the Parade of Sail.
Dan Murphy / GBH News
The Esmeralda, a ship from Chile, sailed by Castle Island.
Dan Murphy / GBH News
Carolyn Gustine carried her son, Patrick, on her shoulders.
You can see the full photo essay here.
Dig deeper:
–Spectators line Cape Cod Canal to see tall ships make their way to Sail250 in Boston
–The World Cup transformed Greater Boston. Will it last?
–Department of Agricultural Resources celebrates Ice Cream Trail program
Local News
A Boston man is facing charges after he allegedly lunged at a Burger King employee, punched a customer, and then resisted arrest at a nearby MBTA station in East Boston, authorities announced Monday afternoon.
Patrick Donovan, 59, was charged July 1 with one count of assault and battery causing injury on an over 60 or disabled person, assault and battery, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault, and vandalism, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said in a press release.
The charges stem from an incident shortly before 10 p.m. on June 30, when Boston police responded to a disturbance call from Burger King at 1 Maverick Square, Hayden’s office said.
A Burger King employee told officers that, after ordering his food and receiving it, Donovan yelled that he no longer wanted it and smacked a napkin holder off the counter. He then allegedly lunged at an employee and grabbed her by the arm, prosecutors said.
Donovan subsequently shoved a customer from behind and allegedly punched him in the face three times while calling him racial slurs, the DA’s office said.
Emergency medical services evaluated the customer for “visible lacerations to the forehead,” but the victim declined additional treatment, authorities said.
Donovan fled the restaurant following the assaults, and officers tracked him to the nearby MBTA Maverick Station, prosecutors said.
“While officers tried to detain Donovan inside the station, he swung at them with a closed fist but did not make contact,” Hayden’s office said, noting that Donovan made racial slurs towards the officers. “Donovan was placed into custody after a brief struggle.”
During his arraignment in the East Boston division of the Boston Municipal Court, Donovan pleaded not guilty and was released on personal recognizance. Court records show he was also ordered to stay away from Maverick Square and Burger King.
He is scheduled to return to court Aug. 7 for a pre-trial hearing, prosecutors said.
Officers obtained security footage of both assaults. Authorities said the incident remains under investigation and could result in further charges.
“Our workers deserve to be safe in their workplaces and our consumers deserve to be safe in their shopping or dining places, without exception,” Hayden said in a statement. “Beyond that, none of our citizens or first responders should be subjected to racial slurs. These appalling words have no place in Suffolk County or anywhere else in our society.”
Attorney information for Donovan was not immediately available Monday afternoon.
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