Red Sox Hall of Famer endorses Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's (D) re-election bid
Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz endorsed Mayor Michelle Wu for re-election Thursday in her bid for a second term against challenger Josh Kraft, a philanthropist and longtime nonprofit leader whose family owns the New England Patriots.
In a statement, Ortiz said the city “deserves someone who shows up for all of us.”
In the opening months of the campaign, Kraft has accused Wu of governing without regard for the input of Boston’s residents and businesses. He has criticized the mayor’s housing policies as overly burdensome and her installation of bus and bike lanes as unnecessary, and on Thursday said he was not a fan of the redesigned Copley Square.
Wu has fought back. On Thursday — in response to Kraft calling questions about his father, Robert Kraft’s, connections to President Donald Trump “a complete distraction from the issues facing the city of Boston” — Wu said her opponent “doesn’t understand this moment or this race.”
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