Michael F. Flaherty | |
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Member of the Boston City Council at-large | |
In office January 2014 – January 2024 | |
Preceded by | John R. Connolly and Felix G. Arroyo |
Succeeded by | Henry Santana |
In office January 2000 – January 2010 | |
Preceded by | Dapper O'Neil |
Succeeded by | Ayanna Pressley and Felix G. Arroyo |
President of the Boston City Council | |
In office January 2002 – January 2006 | |
Preceded by | Charles Yancey |
Succeeded by | Maureen Feeney |
Personal details | |
Born | May 4, 1969 |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Laurene Flaherty |
Children | Patrick, Michael III, and twins Elizabeth and Jack |
Residence | South Boston |
Alma mater | Boston College (BA) Boston University (JD) |
Michael F. Flaherty (born May 4, 1969) is a politician who severely served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council for a cumulative ten terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the council in 1999, serving an initial five terms between 2000 until 2010. During this initial tenure, he served as vice president of the council in 2001 and as council president from 2002 to 2006. In 2009 he forwent reelection to a further term in order to run for mayor of Boston in that year's election, which he lost to incumbent mayor Thomas Menino. He ran unsuccessfully in 2011 to return to the council as an at-large member. In 2013, Flaherty again ran in the at-large city council race, and was returned to the council. He served five terms between 2014 and 2024. In 2023, he declined to seek reelection to an additional term.
Early life, education, and career
Flaherty was born and grew up in South Boston, where has also lived in his adulthood.[1] His father, Michael F. Flaherty Sr., is a former associate justice of the Boston Municipal Court and a former state representative. Flaherty grew in the Old Harbor Housing Project, a public housing project.[1]
Flaherty graduated from Boston College High School, a private school in the Dorchester neighborhood. He graduated from Boston College. He earned a law degree at the Boston University School of Law, attending on a scholarship from Teamsters Local 25 (a trade union which provides law scholarships to family of its members).[1]
Prior to being elected to the Boston City Council in 1999, Flaherty was an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.[1]
First city council tenure (2000–2010)
Elections and council politics
Flaherty was first elected to the council in November 1999 as an at-large member. His election resulted in the unseating of longtime incumbent Dapper O'Neil.[2] He was then re-elected to four additional two-year terms, holding office until January 2010.
After serving as vice president of the council in 2001,, Flaherty was reelected to the council in November 2001. In January 2002, Flaherty was elected by his fellow city councilors to serve as the council's president. Mayor Thomas Menino, who Flaherty had established a strong relationship with, had maneuvered to secure Flaherty the votes needed to become council president.[3] During Flaherty's two-consecutive terms as council president, the council numerous times violated the state's open meetings law, for which it was successfully sued by Kevin McCrea, leading the council to plead guilty in 2008 to having violated the state's open meetings law between 2003 and 2005 by meeting illegally to discuss projects of the Boston Planning Agency (Boston Planning & Development Agency) and an outbreak at a Boston University bio-laboratory.[3][4] Flaherty also was regarded as somewhat autocratic in his leadership of the council, often using parliamentary rules to prevent debate on matter that he regarded as immaterial for the council to discuss.[3]
Flaherty was reelected in November 2003. He was the city council election's top vote-getter. Flaherty's margin of victory over first runner-up Felix D. Arroyo was 5,671 votes, which was the widest margin since the council had been restructured in 1983. After the newly elected council took office in January 2004, Flaherty was elected by the council members to serve a second-consecutive term as the council's president.
Flaherty won reelection in November 2005, again placing as the city council election's top vote-getter. He received only 14,000 fewer votes than Mayor Menino had in the coinciding 2005 Boston mayoral election. Viewing Flaherty's rising stature as a political threat, Menino successfully maneuvered to get Maureen Feeney elected council president in January 2006 instead of Flaherty. In turn, Flaherty became a vocal critic of the mayor. Flaherty gave particularly strong opposition to a proposal by the mayor to relocate the city government headquarters from the existing Boston City Hall to a new city hall along the city's waterfront.[3] Flaherty won reelection in November 2007 and was once again the city council election's top vote-getter. Flaherty did not run for re-election in November 2009, instead opting to run for mayor of Boston.
LGBTQ rights
Flaherty established political ties to the city's gay community.[5] Flaherty was the first city officeholder in Boston to voice support for same-sex marriage. He also gave his support to an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against transgender individuals.[6] In 2023, Flaherty stated that his early support for same-sex marriage was what he was proudest of from his time on the council.[7]
Unsuccessful 2009 mayoral campaign
Flaherty announced on January 25, 2009, that he would run for mayor of Boston in that year's election.[8][9] By February 2009, he had raised more than $600,000 for his campaign.[10] According to The Boston Globe, at that time, only 9% of Flaherty's contributions came from out-of-state, compared to fellow candidate Sam Yoon's 58%.[11] Flaherty's campaign was also supported by a number of trade unions.[3]
Finishing second behind incumbent mayor Thomas Menino in the September primary election, Flaherty advanced to face Menino in the general election. In the general election, Flaherty pledged that he would re-create the position of deputy mayor and appoint Yoon deputy to the role. This position had not existed in Boston since the administration of Kevin White, who left office in 1984.[12] Yoon thereafter campaigned as Flaherty's unofficial running mate.[13]
The 2009 election was regarded to be the first time that Menino had faced a significant challenge for reelection. Flaherty had higher name-recognition and more funding than Menino's previous challengers.[3] However, Flaherty was defeated by Menino in the general election on November 3, 2009. Flaherty lost by the smallest margin (57% to 42%) of anyone who ran against Menino in a mayoral race.
Legal practice and unsuccessful 2011 city council campaign
After leaving the city council, Flaherty practiced private-sector law.[14]
In 2011, the first election since his departure from the council, Flaherty sought election to rejoin the body as an at-large member. Flaherty placed fifth in the general election for the four at-large, missing the fourth and final seat by 925 votes.
In making his endorsements for the 2011 election, Sam Yoon (Flaherty's unofficial running mate from two years prior) snubbed Flaherty and instead endorsed two of his opponents.[15]
Second city council tenure (2014–2024)
Elections and council politics
In the November 2013 election, Flaherty was returned to the council as an at-large member.
Flaherty was reelected in November 2015, November 2017, November 2019,[16] and November 2021. In 2021, he was the lead vote-getter in both the September primary and the general election.[17][18] Flaherty had considered the possibility of running in the 2021 Boston mayoral election,[19] but did not run.
In his eighth term (2018 and 2019), Flaherty served as chair of the Committee on Government Operations.[20] In his ninth term (2020 and 2021), Flaherty served as chair of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee and vice chair of the Committee on Government Operations.[1]
In July 2023, Flaherty announced that he would not be pursuing an additional term in office.[21] Flaherty cited discord on the council and a desire to spend more time with his family as his motivations for retiring from the council.[18] Flaherty has stated that he has no immediate plans of running for other office.
Housing
Flaherty worked on the Jim Brooks Act, a home-rule petition which (if approved by the state government) would have enacted a number of measures to protect tenants against eviction, including a city prohibition on no-cause evictions.[22][23] The bill passed the council in October and was soon after approved by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be referred to the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature) for passage.[24] However, the legislation did not receive traction in the state legislature.[22]
In February 2023, Flaherty expressed reservations about the rent stabilization home rule petition that Mayor Michelle Wu had sent to council.[23] He cited the years-earlier stall in the state legislature of the Jim Brooks Act he had helped to create, Flaherty urged city council members to not to passing a rent control home rule petition (which would need state approval to become law) unless there was a desire by state legislators to enact as law.[22] He also expressed worry about the possibility that rent stabilization would put landlords with smaller property portfolios at a disadvantage in competing against those holding larger portfolios.[25] In March 2023, when the petition came to a vote, Flaherty proposed an amendment to exempt properties or Boston-resident landlords who own fewer than six units and live within one of the units themselves. However, the amendment failed after only receiving support from three other councilors. He voted for the petition, which passed the council 11–2. He also voted the same day to advance Wu's home-rule petition to reform the Boston Planning & Development Agency, which also passed the council 11–2.[26]
Other matters
In 2015, anticipating a possible legalization of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, Flaherty proposed that the city adopt a text amendment prohibiting either medical marijuana dispensary or recreational sales outlets from being located within 2,500 of each other in hopes of preventing a large proliferation of marijuana sales points in any singular community.[27]
Flaherty received media attention in April 2019 for comments he made regarding a proposal to charge for resident parking permits. In a City Council hearing on the issue, he stated that bus stop spacing and stop length were a major cause of the city's parking woes and instead suggested coordinating with the MBTA to start a conversation about removing some of them. His comments were met with backlash from the public and transportation advocates, with many pointing to his ownership of five cars in a city as the real problem.[28][29][30] The Twitter hashtag "#FiveCarFlaherty" was used by many to voice their opposition to his comments.[28][29]
In April 2021, Flaherty was among a group that voted against legislation, which was nevertheless passed by a 7–5 vote of the City Council, that restricted the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray by the Boston Police Department.[31]
Personal life
Flaherty has continued to reside in South Boston. Flaherty has four adult children.[1]
Electoral history
City Council
1999 Boston at-large City Council election | ||||||
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Candidate[32] | Primary Election[33] | General Election[34] | ||||
Francis Roache (incumbent) | 21,658 | 19.1 | 30,271 | 18.1 | ||
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 19,380 | 17.1 | 27,515 | 16.4 | ||
Peggy Davis-Mullen (incumbent) | 16,233 | 14.3 | 26,468 | 15.8 | ||
Michael F. Flaherty | 10,985 | 9.7 | 26,377 | 15.8 | ||
Dapper O'Neil (incumbent) | 17,052 | 15.1 | 24,636 | 14.7 | ||
Gregory B. Timilty | 14,429 | 12.7 | 16,068 | 9.6 | ||
Joseph Mulligan III | 6,245 | 5.5 | 10,012 | 6.0 | ||
Andrea Morrell | 3,329 | 2.9 | 6,093 | 3.6 | ||
Daniel Kontoff | 2,137 | 1.9 | ||||
John Hugo | 1,812 | 1.6 |
2001 Boston at-large City Council election[35] | ||||
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Candidate | Votes | % | ||
Francis Roache (incumbent) | 44,062 | 19.0 | ||
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 42,869 | 18.5 | ||
Maura Hennigan | 40,423 | 17.4 | ||
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 39,436 | 17.0 | ||
Felix D. Arroyo | 28,551 | 12.3 | ||
Robert Consalvo | 28,584 | 12.3 | ||
Phyllis Yetman Igoe | 8,186 | 3.5 |
2003 Boston at-large City Council election | ||||||
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Candidate | Primary Election[36][37] | General Election[38][39] | ||||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 20,307 | 18.21 | 36,387 | 18.33 | ||
Felix D. Arroyo (incumbent) | 14,379 | 12.89 | 34,685 | 17.48 | ||
Maura Hennigan (incumbent) | 15,916 | 14.27 | 33,596 | 16.93 | ||
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 17,597 | 15.78 | 30,510 | 15.37 | ||
Patricia H. White | 16,439 | 14.74 | 29,649 | 14.94 | ||
Matt O'Malley | 7,025 | 6.30 | 12,929 | 6.51 | ||
Althea Garrison | 5,050 | 4.53 | 10,524 | 5.30 | ||
Roy Owens | 4,356 | 3.91 | 10,204 | 5.14 | ||
Jacquelyne Payne-Thompson | 2,723 | 2.44 | ||||
Phyllis Yetman Igoe | 1,940 | 1.74 | ||||
Edward Puglielli | 1,705 | 1.53 | ||||
Laura Garza | 1,604 | 1.44 | ||||
Arthur "Lucky" Craffey | 1,594 | 1.43 | ||||
Joseph Anthony Ureneck | 907 | 0.81 |
2005 Boston at-large City Council election | ||||
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Candidate | Primary election[40] | General election[41] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 17,828 | 13.90 | 49,220 | 17.58 |
Felix D. Arroyo (incumbent) | 15,690 | 12.23 | 43,533 | 15.55 |
Sam Yoon | 13,165 | 10.27 | 41,891 | 14.96 |
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 14,094 | 10.99 | 35,553 | 12.70 |
John R. Connolly | 14,287 | 11.14 | 31,629 | 11.30 |
Matt O'Malley | 12,070 | 9.41 | 28,318 | 10.12 |
Patricia H. White | 12,895 | 10.05 | 26,999 | 9.64 |
Edward M. Flynn | 11,092 | 8.65 | 21,778 | 7.78 |
Althea Garrison | 4824 | 3.76 | ||
Kevin R. Mccrea | 3661 | 2.85 | ||
Roy Owens | 3622 | 2.82 | ||
Laura Garza | 1807 | 1.41 | ||
Gregory Joseph O'Connell | 1174 | 0.92 | ||
Martin J. Hogan | 1031 | 0.80 | ||
Joseph Ready | 675 | 0.53 | ||
Joseph Ureneck | 17† | 0.01 | 133† | 0.05 |
Gibran Rivera | 17† | 0.01 | ||
all others | 297 | 0.23 | 874 | 0.31 |
† write-in votes
2007 Boston at-large City Council election[42] | ||
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Candidates | Votes | % |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 25,863 | 20.57 |
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 23,659 | 18.82 |
Sam Yoon (incumbent) | 23,230 | 18.48 |
John R. Connolly | 21,997 | 17.50 |
Felix D. Arroyo | 18,579 | 4.78 |
Martin J. Hogan | 4,008 | 3.19 |
Matthew Geary | 3,030 | 2.41% |
William P. Estrada | 2,439 | 1.94% |
David James Wyatt | 2,383 | 1.90% |
Scattering | 542 | 0.43% |
2011 Boston at-large City Council election[43] | ||
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Candidates | Votes | % |
Ayanna Pressley (incumbent) | 37,532 | 21.42 |
Felix G. Arroyo (incumbent) | 35,483 | 20.25 |
John R. Connolly (incumbent) | 32,827 | 18.74 |
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 26,730 | 15.26 |
Michael F. Flaherty | 25,805 | 14.73% |
Will Dorcena | 8,739 | 4.99% |
Sean H. Ryan | 7,376 | 4.21% |
2013 Boston at-large City Council election | ||||
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Candidate | Primary election[44] | General election[45] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Ayanna Pressley (incumbent) | 42,915 | 16.71 | 60,799 | 18.30 |
Michelle Wu | 29,384 | 11.44 | 59,741 | 17.98 |
Michael F. Flaherty | 39,904 | 15.54 | 55,104 | 16.59 |
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 31,728 | 12.35 | 44,993 | 13.54 |
Annissa Essaibi George | 12,244 | 4.77 | 30,538 | 9.19 |
Jeffrey Ross | 13,939 | 5.43 | 28,879 | 8.69 |
Martin Keogh | 15,743 | 6.13 | 26,500 | 7.98 |
Jack Kelly III | 11,909 | 4.64 | 23,967 | 7.22 |
Catherine O'Neill | 10,952 | 4.26 | ||
Althea Garrison | 10,268 | 4.00 | ||
Ramon Soto | 9,928 | 3.87 | ||
Philip Frattaroli | 5,832 | 2.27 | ||
Gareth Saunders | 5,363 | 2.09 | ||
Christopher Conroy | 3,433 | 1.34 | ||
Seamus Whelan | 3,118 | 1.21 | ||
Francisco White | 2,745 | 1.07 | ||
Douglas Wohn | 2,382 | 0.93 | ||
Frank Addivinola Jr. | 2,240 | 0.87 | ||
Keith Kenyon | 1,950 | 0.76 | ||
Jamarhl Crawford | 21† | 0.01 | ||
all others | 832 | 0.32 | 1,658 | 0.50 |
† write-in votes
Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Ayanna Pressley (incumbent) | 31,783 | 24.21 | |
Michelle Wu (incumbent) | 28,908 | 22.02 | |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 26,473 | 20.16 | |
Annissa Essaibi George | 23,447 | 17.86 | |
Stephen J. Murphy (incumbent) | 19,546 | 14.89 | |
Jovan Lacet write-in | 95 | 0.07 | |
Charles Yancey write-in | 39 | 0.03 | |
Jean-Claud Sanon write-in | 25 | 0.02 | |
Andrea Campbell write-in | 13 | 0.01 | |
all others | 959 | 0.73 |
Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|
Michelle Wu (incumbent) | 65,040 | 24.47 | |
Ayanna Pressley (incumbent) | 57,520 | 21.64 | |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 51,673 | 19.44 | |
Annissa Essaibi George (incumbent) | 45,564 | 17.14 | |
Althea Garrison | 1,825 | 6.87 | |
Domingos DaRosa | 11,647 | 4.38 | |
William King | 8,773 | 3.30 | |
Pat Payaso | 6,124 | 2.30 | |
all others | 1,230 | 0.46 |
2019 Boston at-large City Council election | ||||
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Candidate | Primary election[48] | General election[49] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Michelle Wu (incumbent) | 26,622 | 19.41 | 41,664 | 20.73 |
Annissa Essaibi George (incumbent) | 18,993 | 13.85 | 34,109 | 16.97 |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 18,766 | 13.68 | 33,284 | 16.56 |
Julia Mejia | 10,799 | 7.87 | 22,492 | 11.19 |
Alejandra St. Guillen | 11,910 | 8.68 | 22,491 | 11.19 |
Erin Murphy | 9,385 | 6.84 | 16,867 | 8.39 |
Althea Garrison (incumbent) | 9,720 | 7.09 | 16,189 | 8.05 |
David Halbert | 6,354 | 4.76 | 13,214 | 6.57 |
Martin Keogh | 6,246 | 4.55 | ||
Jeffrey Ross | 5,078 | 3.70 | ||
Priscilla Flint-Banks | 4,094 | 2.98 | ||
Domingos DaRosa | 2,840 | 2.07 | ||
Michel Denis | 2,108 | 1.54 | ||
William King | 1,809 | 1.32 | ||
Herb Lozano | 1,510 | 1.10 | ||
all others | 766 | 0.56 | 704 | 0.35 |
2021 Boston City Council at-large election | ||||
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Candidate | Primary election[50] | General election | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Michael F. Flaherty (incumbent) | 41,299 | 15.0 | 62,606 | 17.4 |
Julia Mejia (incumbent) | 38,765 | 14.1 | 62,058 | 17.3 |
Ruthzee Louijeune | 33,425 | 12.2 | 54,898 | 15.3 |
Erin Murphy | 22,835 | 8.3 | 43,076 | 12.0 |
David Halbert | 16,921 | 6.2 | 42,765 | 11.9 |
Carla Monteiro | 18,844 | 6.9 | 39,876 | 11.1 |
Bridget Nee-Walsh | 15,118 | 5.5 | 27,591 | 7.7 |
Althea Garrison | 16,810 | 6.1 | 25,078 | 7.0 |
Kelly Bates | 12,735 | 4.6 | ||
Alexander Gray | 11,263 | 4.1 | ||
Jon Spillane | 11,155 | 4.1 | ||
Said Abdikarim | 7,725 | 2.8 | ||
Domingos DaRosa | 7,139 | 2.6 | ||
Donnie Dionico Palmer Jr. | 6,823 | 2.5 | ||
Roy A. Owens Sr. | 5,223 | 1.9 | ||
James Rignald Colimon | 4,671 | 1.7 | ||
Nick Vance | 3,943 | 1.4 | ||
Write-ins | 845 | 0.3 | 1,350 | 0.4 |
Total | 274,694 | 100 | 359,294 | 100 |
Mayoral
2009 Boston mayoral election | ||||
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Candidates | Preliminary election[51] | General election[51] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Thomas Menino (incumbent) | 41,026 | 50.52 | 63,123 | 57.27 |
Michael F. Flaherty | 19,459 | 23.96 | 46,768 | 42.43 |
Sam Yoon | 17,179 | 21.16 | ||
Kevin McCrea | 3,340 | 4.11 |
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- ↑ "CITY OF BOSTONMUNICIPAL ELECTION - NOVEMBER 3, 2015 CITY COUNCILLOR AT LARGE" (PDF). www.cityofboston.gov. City of Boston. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ↑ "CITY OF BOSTON MUNICIPAL ELECTION - NOVEMBER 7, 2015 CITY COUNCILLOR AT LARGE" (PDF). www.cityofboston.gov. City of Boston. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ↑ "CITY COUNCILLOR AT LARGE" (PDF). City of Boston. September 24, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019 – via boston.gov.
- ↑ "CITY OF BOSTON MUNICIPAL ELECTION - NOVEMBER 5, 2019 - RECOUNT CITY COUNCILLOR AT LARGE" (PDF). www.boston.gov. City of Boston. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ↑ "Unofficial Election Results". Boston.gov. 3 October 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
- 1 2 "Unofficial Election Results - City of Boston". Cityofboston.gov. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
Further reading
- Bernstein, David S. (July 18, 2013). "City Council Candidate Chat: Michael Flaherty". Boston. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
External links
- Profile at boston.gov
- Official website