Mayor Martin Walsh said during a speech to the city Tuesday night that he is going to bring Boston with him when he goes to Washington, D.C., to serve in the Biden administration as secretary of labor. Whether he intends to pack it or not, Walsh will also have a bit of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in tow.
If he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Walsh will be the latest in a line of at least a dozen men to serve in both the Massachusetts House and in a presidential Cabinet.
Most recent on the list was Rep. Andrew Card, a Holbrook Republican who served about eight years in the House in the late 1970s and early 1980s and served as transportation secretary under President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and 1993.
If confirmed as labor secretary, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will be one of few Massachusetts House members appointed to presidential Cabinet
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
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By Colin A. Young | State House News Service
Mayor Martin Walsh said during a speech to the city Tuesday night that he is going to bring Boston with him when he goes to Washington, D.C., to serve in the Biden administration as secretary of labor. Whether he intends to pack it or not, Walsh will also have a bit of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in tow.
If he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Walsh will be the latest in a line of at least a dozen men to serve in both the Massachusetts House and in a presidential Cabinet.
In His Farewell, Mayor Walsh Laments COVID s Toll, Says He s Taking Boston With Me To Washington
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh provides an update on COVID-19 in this file photo.
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Updated 8:31 p.m.
In his seventh and final state of the city speech, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh who is leaving his job to become President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of labor lamented the human toll taken by COVID-19 and touted his administration’s response to the pandemic.
Early in his address, Walsh noted that more than 1,000 Bostonians have died due to the coronavirus pandemic, and he mentioned three of them: Beverly Ann Rock, a Dorchester social worker; Regina Phillips, a Boston EMT assigned to Ambulance 19 in Mattapan; and Jose Fontanez, a Boston police officer who worked in Jamaica Plain.
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WALSH HEADED TO D.C., MAYORAL RACE WIDE OPEN It s the equivalent of an earthquake in Boston politics.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is headed to Washington as President-elect Joe Biden s nominee for secretary of Labor. And for more than a dozen ambitious pols in the city, Walsh s departure creates a once-in-a-decade chance to be the mayor of Boston.
If Walsh Is Out, Who Will Lead Boston s Mayoral Race? Jon Keller Weighs In
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, right, walks with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, left, to a memorial to fallen servicemen on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Boston.
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Jon Keller On Walsh s Potential Departure And Mayoral Race | Morning Edition
Thursday s news that President-elect Joe Biden will tap Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary took many pundits by surprise, as Walsh has been fundraising for another mayoral run and Biden faces calls to diversify his cabinet. But WBZ-TV Political Analyst Jon Keller said he thinks the news makes sense.