Jim Davis, the New Balance chairman who sent more than $1 million toward an outside group seeking to defeat then-Councillor Michelle Wu in the 2021 mayoral contest, is now hotfooting into City Council races. The candidates say they aren’t interested in the help. Davis, a Republican donor at the federal level, this week donated $150,000 to an outside group, or super PAC,
Voters in a handful of City Council districts face a deadline in choosing their candidates, if they haven’t already voted by mail or in-person at an early voting location. Polls close at 8 p.m. next Tuesday (Sept. 12) in the preliminaries for District 3 (Dorchester and the South End), District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), District 6 (Jamaica Plain and West