Michelle Wu faces her large Beltway second this week towards rabid proper wing Republicans together with her main protection – that Boston is the “most secure metropolis” in America – in shambles after the surprising Chick-fil-A assault within the metropolis’s crowded Again Bay.
The Boston mayor’s claims of public security are going to ring hole following the capturing of a knife-wielding attacker by an off-duty police officer within the quick meals restaurant this weekend.
If town’s low capturing charge was going to be the muse of her look, it’s cracked now.
However Wu may nonetheless skillfully navigate her look earlier than a Home committee on Wednesday and emerge because the left wing icon of resistance to Donald Trump.
“Not my first rodeo,” she stated on Monday.
It’s unclear when Wu’s first rodeo was — possibly the time she held an “electeds of coloration” vacation social gathering on the Parkman Home? Or possibly when she provided condolences over the weekend to the household of the knife wielding attacker at Chick-fil-A?
Wu’s job in Washington was made way more tough by the weekend occasions within the coronary heart of Boston, which little question might be on the minds of Republican lawmakers on the panel.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi sharply criticized Wu for providing condolences to the household of the knife attacker, recognized as Lemark Jaramillo of Roslindale, when Wu went to the scene of the capturing. The mayor on the time didn’t even reward the heroic officer for saving lives.
“This DOJ will NEVER apologize for taking down harmful criminals and getting them off our streets. Thanks to the courageous legislation enforcement officer in Boston who stepped as much as defend these in want.” Bondi wrote on X.
Bondi added that “politicians who wish to apologize to criminals shouldn’t be in workplace.”
Wu responded on Monday that it was “unlucky to politicize being on the scene of a tragic incident. Our officers are in extraordinarily tough and harmful conditions each single day … I expressed condolences … as a result of each lack of life is a horrible tragedy.”
Regardless of how ready Wu is for her D.C. testimony, she nonetheless may endure the identical destiny as former Harvard President Claudine Homosexual, who withered below questioning at a congressional listening to the place she refused to say that requires the genocide of Jews violated the varsity’s conduct code.
Homosexual, who additionally confronted plagiarism allegations, was the second Ivy League president pressured to resign following their disastrous congressional testimony.
Little question the Harvard-educated Wu might be ready to defend her metropolis amid assaults from Republicans over Boston’s sanctuary standing for unlawful immigrants.
She might be one in every of 4 mayors known as to testify about unlawful immigration of their metropolis, however many of the focus on the listening to will in all probability be directed at Wu, some of the excessive profile lefty pols within the nation.
Wu stated she plans to “get up” for Boston and “the reality” when she testifies on Wednesday earlier than the Home Oversight Committee.
“We’ve got already seen some supplies put out upfront that appears designed to intensify curiosity and body it as some sort of showdown or dramatic second,” she stated.
“We’re some of the numerous cities…and we’re the most secure main metropolis within the nation,” she added.
She higher hope to provide you with a line higher than that one in Washington, or she might be roasted by Republicans.
Taking part in protection for Wu on Wednesday might be Democratic lawmakers Ayanna Pressley and Stephen Lynch, who additionally sit on the oversight committee. However Pressley, even additional to the left than Wu, is probably not the perfect particular person to return to the mayor’s rescue.
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