Politicians Remember Former Boston Mayor Tom Menino Say City Better Because of Him
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Photo by Wendy Maeda/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BOSTON) — After former Boston Mayor Tom Menino passed away on Thursday, politicians locally and nationally remembered him fondly.
Describing Menino’s, “sheer determination and unmatched work ethic,” current Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said that Menino, “took a city that is not as big in size as we are in stature and put us on the world stage as a national leader in health care, education, innovation and the nitty gritty of executing basic city services.”
“Because of his leadership,” Walsh said of his predecessor, “Boston is a better place today.”
President Obama remembered the former mayor as a “bold, big-hearted” man who was “Boston strong.” The president noted that Menino’s, “legacy lives on in every neighborhood he helped revitalize, every school he helped turn around, and every community he helped make a safer, better place to live.”
Secretary of State John Kerry, a Senator from Massachusetts for 18 years, put it simply: “Tom Menino was Boston.” Praising his, “big bold beating heart of a street politician” and asserting that Menino still, “is Boston today,” Kerry said that while, “others talked, Tommy worked.”
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