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Michelle Wu defends holiday party excluding white city councilors
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s publicly hosted holiday party excluding white elected officials is questionable optics and judgment for someone who is supposed to be uniting the city.
As the Herald first reported, Wu hosted the party for an “electeds of color” group only on Wednesday night at the city-owned Parkman House despite criticism from some councilors who got disinvited.
Wu’s director of City Council relations, Denise DosSantos, mistakenly sent an invite to the party to all city councilors, seven of whom are white.
Fifteen minutes later she sent another email apologizing for sending the invite to everyone.
“I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused,” she wrote.
Wu spokesman Ricardo Patrón told the Herald the city was not paying for the party, though it was using city resources — the Parkman House.
Battenfeld: Michelle Wu defends holiday party excluding white city councilors
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s publicly hosted holiday party excluding white elected officials is questionable optics and judgment for someone who is supposed to be uniting the city.
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Mayor Wu's Boston City Council holiday party invitations draw criticism
It was a festive atmosphere at the last scheduled Boston City Council meeting of the year on Wednesday. There were gifts, smiles and even group pictures. But there was also tension over a holiday party not everyone on the council was invited to. “I don’t get offended. You don’t want me at a...
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