09.13.2024

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Stunner: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says city is open for business if the New England Revolution are looking for a new stadium site

We were almost floored when we heard Wu casually drop this idea during an interview earlier this week on GBH’s Boston Public Radio.

After all, the not-so-secret scuttlebutt is that the Boston mayor lobbied behind the scenes to kill a State House bill that would have paved the way for the development of a Revolution stadium on the Everett waterfront.

Further, Wu also raised a stink in public about the Kraft family’s Everett stadium push, arguing it would snarl traffic on Boston roads.

But forget all that, because now that the Everett plan appears dead, Wu says she would be more than happy to entertain a Boston stadium proposal from the team.

Will Revs take their thwarted Everett stadium plan to Boston?

Say what?

“I have always wanted a Revs stadium in the city of Boston or nearby,” Wu said on GBH, noting that fans of the soccer franchise would then no longer “have to hike all the way out to Foxborough.”

In fact, the mayor sees potential synergies between a potential Revs stadium in Boston and the city’s recently approved, $100 million plan to transform decrepit White Stadium in Franklin Park into the home field for a women’s professional soccer team.

Is this an olive branch and open invitation from Wu to the Krafts, who have spent decades hunting for a Boston area stadium site for the Revs, to no avail?

Further adding to the intrigue, Josh Kraft, son of the billionaire Patriots and Revs owner, is eyeing plans to challenge Wu in next year’s mayoral race.

Go figure.

Wu’s mainstream media friends: Boston mayor’s drive to remove checks to her increasingly disastrous economic policies cheered on by hosts of GBH’s Boston Public Radio

With double-digit tax increases looming for homeowners and businesses alike, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu really might want to reconsider the need for a fully-staffed press office to spin the local media.

After all, she has Boston Public Radio’s Jim Braude and Margery Eagan to give her a friendly audience each week.

It’s not just that the public radio media personalities fail to challenge Wu’s all-too-sunny narrative on various issues during their regularly scheduled, roughly-hour long conversations with the mayor.

Rather, the duo, and Braude in particular, have uncritically taken up Wu’s cause when it comes to the mayor’s push to eliminate long-standing checks on the power of Boston and other cities and towns to tax and regulate homeowners and businesses into oblivion.