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MARTY WALSH INAUGURATION ON WCVB Ch. 5 right now....(live stream on computer, if you'd like) (Original Post) MADem Jan 2014 OP
Elizabeth WARREN getting ready to speak!!! nt MADem Jan 2014 #1
Yo Yo Ma is playing Danny Boy. Deval Patrick just gave a great speech-this is one of the best MADem Jan 2014 #2
Walsh is giving a BARN BURNER of a speech...he may be a very good mayor! MADem Jan 2014 #3

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Yo Yo Ma is playing Danny Boy. Deval Patrick just gave a great speech-this is one of the best
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 10:52 AM
Jan 2014

inaugurations I've ever seen--it's PACKED with people.

In selecting Boston College’s Conte Forum for his Monday morning inauguration, Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh has placed it 6 miles from City Hall, the furthest ever, and set the stage for the second-largest inaugural in Boston history.

Walsh said he didn’t choose BC to send a message or set a precedent; he simply wanted the inauguration to be open to the thousands who worked to elect him and to other supporters, including aunts traveling from Ireland and England and possibly all of his 67 first cousins.

“It’s the first time in 20 years there’s been a new mayor inaugurated,” Walsh said in a telephone interview. “I didn’t want to have to pick and choose who could come and who couldn’t come.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/01/05/walsh-choice-inaugural-venue-break-with-more-than-century-tradition/HFjW4dzpFoQIB5au3oT2IP/story.html

MADem

(135,425 posts)
3. Walsh is giving a BARN BURNER of a speech...he may be a very good mayor!
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 11:22 AM
Jan 2014

He is certainly inclusive--and that's a biggie with me!

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