DemonHuskySome #FOI results on the failure of DCR and Gov Healey to open Riverbend Park on Saturdays
Kevin Patrick Doyle 🍅🥫@DemonHusky @carfree so its Decker, as we suspected
Christopher Schmidt@Kevin @DemonHusky @carfree Decker and a pretty deliberate misreading of the political actions of the City Council / Simmons overstating her hand.
Simmons doesn't "represent the area" (anymore than the other 7-8 Councillors who voted against her on this), and the letter claimed that the Council "isn't unified" / voted against it, which they absolutely did not.
Maybe it's not willful (just ignorant) but either way, it's giving the voice of a single person drastically outsized influence.
@crschmidt @DemonHusky @carfree looks like Tepper comes from a straight legal background and not a political/organizing background so my guess is they just don’t understand how Cambridge works, and mistook Simmons’s interest in the matter for representation.
@Kevin @DemonHusky @carfree Yeah, I'm probably being insufficiently kind as someone deeply invested and informed on Cambridge politics.
But I also think that by March 2023, this issue had been widely discussed and to take the position that Simmons was representing "the Council" requires almost willful ignorance.
@Kevin @crschmidt @carfree I know it was addressed to the governor and not from her, but she is a resident of Cambridge, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect her and her office to have a better than usual understanding of how the city representation works.
@DemonHusky @crschmidt @carfree either that or Maura is going to be extremely confused when she goes to vote in November and realizes Simmons is at-large like everyone else.
@Kevin @DemonHusky @carfree Since I bothered to check, just want to note that Maura Healey has voted in municipal elections every year since at least 2011.