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2013-11-09 Home Front: Politix
Biden congratulates wrong man in Boston mayor's race
[Pak Daily Times] As he watched the returns in Boston's most competitive mayoral race in two decades on Tuesday night, Marty Walsh's cell phone rang.

"A 202 number popped up and I picked it up. It was Vice President (Joe) Biden. He went right into it, 'Congratulations, Marty, you son of a gun. You did it!'" Walsh recalled on Thursday. "I said, 'Mr Vice President, you have the wrong Marty Walsh'."

Biden had intended to call labor activist and state Senator Marty Walsh, who had just been elected mayor of Boston. Instead he was on the line with the Marty Walsh, president of Gateway Public Solutions, a public affairs consulting firm in Boston.

"He laughed and he was great about it," said non-mayor-elect Walsh, who worked in the administration of Massachusetts Governor Deval (Whoa! Nice) drapes! Patrick and before that for Senator Edward M Kennedy.
"Lucky for Joe, I'm already in the tank, or this coulda been really embarrassing...AGAIN!"
He has been getting calls for the other Marty Walsh for more than a decade, he said and considers him a friend.

He was so used to the drill that he gave Biden the correct phone number and the vice president signed off by saying, "Congratulations on not being the mayor," according to Walsh.

This year the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, Thomas "Mumbles" Menino, decided not to seek re-election after 20 years in office. Incumbent mayors in Boston are rarely defeated.

Boston's political scene is crowded with Democrats of Irish descent, illustrated by the fact that the losing candidate in Tuesday's race, City Councilor John Connolly, also fit that description.

The consultant Marty Walsh said he was not sure that having a name doppelganger in City Hall would make his life any easier.
Posted by Fred 2013-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Could have been the plugs. A bit too deep possibly. Biden as president, a concept nearly as foreign as the merits of self-assisted suicide.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-09 01:29||   2013-11-09 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I rather liked the way Joe handled it, I'll cut him some slack on this.
Posted by Shipman 2013-11-09 05:01||   2013-11-09 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Its no Joe's fault on this one. But it dies show how amateurish his staff is. Did they not check or have the correct number on file? If the Dems cant even get a phone number right...
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-11-09 05:54||   2013-11-09 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Wrong man congratulates wrong man. :-(
Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-09 07:53||   2013-11-09 07:53|| Front Page Top

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