By Howie Carr | Sunday, November 6, 2011 |
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In Southie they’re saying, give Mikey a bullet.
Mikey being Mike Flaherty, also known as Baby Flats. And the “bullet” is a single vote in the at-large Boston City Council election Tuesday, even though you can vote for as many as four candidates.
In Southie they’re saying, you gotta help out Mike Flaherty. Mikey’s for Southie.
Please. You want to talk about guys who were for Southie? Jimmy Kelly was for Southie.
Mike Flaherty is for Mike Flaherty, period.
Ever been to Ireland? They have this group of people, the tinkers, they’re kinda like Irish gypsies. The tinkers set up a camp in your neighborhood, pretty soon your bicycle goes missing. Then a prize pig. The garda show up to ask questions, but the tinkers know nothing.
Not for nothing do they call the Flahertys the tinkers of Southie.
Mike Flaherty did not return a call seeking a comment for this column.
Baby Flats ran for mayor two years ago, saying he had done all he could on the City Council. Now he’s running again, so he can take on Mumbles one more time in 2013.
It’s not exactly a secret that Mumbles holds a grudge. That’s why Sam Yoon, the other city councilor who ran for mayor, didn’t just move out of the city after he lost, he moved out of the state. Good career move, Sam.
Baby Flats, though, said he was going to work for a law firm as a “rainmaker,” as if Mumbles would do a favor for anybody who used Baby Flats as his mouthpiece.
So now he needs that $87,500 council salary, plus the health insurance, the aides and the parking space at City Hall, so he can get ready for the 2013 mayor’s fight. It’s always about Flaherty.
Take the family, please. Remember how Baby Flats tried to get his wife on the police department at, what, age 40? Then there was his father, Flats Senior. He was a state rep until he decided to become a real-estate mogul in the Lower End. Lucky for him he had his cousin at the BRA, in addition to that second job the cousin had at the State House. A double-dipping Flaherty until he got stabbed to death down in Florida.
After the voters got sick of him, Flats Senior was starving to death as a lawyer until the Republicans took care of him with a judgeship at the Boston Municipal Court. Then there’s Baby Flats’ sister, Peggy. Mitt Romney appointed her the clerk of the South Boston District Court after the death of her 94-year-old boss, who also happened to be named Flaherty (no relation, believe it or not).
Then there was the cousin who grabbed the bag of cash that fell off the armored car on the Broadway bridge, and later went to work for the T — but I’m out of space.
The Flahertys — they are to Southie what the Connollys are to West Roxbury, another dynasty of Kmart Kennedys.
Remember Tuesday — Flaherty’s for Flaherty.
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