Healy’s main challenger is
Steven Fulop,
36, a councilman of rare energy and talent. He offers a menu of
sensible reforms, such as closing the independent authorities that serve
as unaccountable patronage mills, and absorbing their functions into
the city government. He wants to ensure public schools get a share of
the payments made by firms that get tax abatements. As a councilman, he
won approval over Healy’s objections of key ethics reforms, including a
ban on political donations from city contractors.
Yes, Fulop is young and unproven. Electing a rookie mayor always carries some risk.
But Fulop has already transformed the politics of a city that sorely
needed it. He has built an army of volunteers hungry for better
government and schools, and his supporters now control both the city
council and the school committee. He crushed Healy in the debates with
cogent plans to make change. Read More from
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