Michelle Wu defends Boston, attacks Trump and ‘thugs’

Mayor Michelle Wu launched her beginning of the delayed re -election campaign in a speech of the city state in which the opponent Josh Kraft could not compete, giving a strong blow to President Donald Trump and the Republican “thugs” to criticize the state of the Sanctuary of Boston city.

“This is our city. No one tells Boston how to take care of ours. No Kings, and not presidents who think they are kings,” said Wu, referring to his testimony in Washington before the House Supervision Committee. “Boston was born in front of thugs.”

Wu had the power of Pulpit Bully on Wednesday night within the MGM Music Hall, where rock stars are generally presented, announcing important feeling initiatives such as an affordable housing plan, an energy savings program and an expansion of free museum Sundays for Boston’s families.

It was a demonstration of the power of incumbency and an example of why Boston mayors are almost never defeated.

Referring to the threat of the Tsar of the Tom Homan border to take the “hell” to Boston for housing illegal immigrants, Wednesday replied on Wednesday that “high waters or hell come, regardless of who threatens to bring it, Boston has defended the people we love and the country we build.”

Wu’s speech took place two months later than a normal speech of the city’s state because he had just given birth to his third child in January and took a free time.

It was his second important public appearance in recent weeks, only two weeks after being taken in front of the Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives to testify about the status of the Sanctuary City of Boston.

“It is due to this community, and the work we have done together, that I could raise my right hand, make an oath and tell the nation the truth, that Boston is the largest city on earth,” he told the strong applause of the partisan multitude of officials and political leaders of the City Council on Wednesday night.

His testimony before Congress mainly caused his supporters and also served to galvanize his re -election campaign on a subject that could have become a responsibility.

“We are a city where Irish coffee is strong and our opinions are stronger,” he said in the state of the city. “We may not always agree or see ourselves with eyes, but at the end of the day, we are a family. If you come for one of us, you will get us all.”

The speech on Wednesday night was essentially fuel for its campaign, which has not yet been officially started. She was prepared for this moment.

It was more like a state of the campaign speech that solidified its position at the top of the surveys on Kraft, son of the owner of the billionaire Patriots, Robert Kraft.

The state of the city of Wu and its condemnation to Trump will surely attract national attention and solidify it as one of the country’s main political progressives, although it will not help when it comes to Boston’s probable punishment of the federal government because it is a sanctuary city.

Before the speech began, he announced an agreement with the Boston Masters Union to enclose them in salary increases over the next three years.

Look for Wu’s speech and the initiatives he launched to become a conversation points for campaign in the coming months.

Wu, as expected, during his speech, repeated his statement that Boston is safe, despite the fact that the data show other cities with less violent crimes and a big problem of crimes at the crossroads of the center that prevents people from visiting the city.

A good part of the speech also spent on Wednesday night highlighting progress in schools, although violence and old broken school buildings continue to affect the Boston school system.

Kraft tried to print the impact of the discourse by announcing his first support from the Union, but that received only a fraction of the attention that Wu received for his televised speech.