Mayor Martin Walsh appeared to bat away rumors of a possibility of a Biden administration Labor secretary post — and, conversely, that he wouldn’t run again for mayor — on Wednesday when he said he looks forward to “working with this administration as mayor for the many years to come.”
Walsh, the 53-year-old former union boss, reportedly has been a favorite of AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, and is a personal friend of President-elect Joe Biden. Reports earlier this month said Trumka was trying to rally support behind the second-term Boston mayor for Secretary of Labor.
Biden is expected to announce economy-related Cabinet positions next week.
Asked on Wednesday if Biden’s transition team had been in touch with him, he avoided the question. He talked about a national mayors meeting last week with Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and sang their praises, saying they spoke about infrastructure, the coronavirus pandemic and housing policy.
“If that was any idea of how this administration is going to work, I look forward to working with this administration as mayor for the many years to come,” said Walsh, a former laborer who led the Boston Building Trades before winning the big office on City Hall’s fifth floor.
“As mayor?” this reporter asked.
“As mayor,” Walsh repeated, wrapping up the press conference.
Walsh, of Dorchester, is potentially up for re-election next November, though he has repeatedly demurred when asked whether he’s actually going to run. The mayor, who polls well in Boston, has acknowledged calling around to shore up support after City Councilor Michelle Wu and then City Councilor Andrea Campbell announced runs against him in September, and those around him have said they expect him to run.
Those two councilors have long been rumored as likely and potentially strong challengers, but it’s very difficult to oust in incumbent mayor in Boston. After all, a favorite stat of Boston politicos is that the last sitting mayor to lose was James Michael Curley in 1949 — and the place he’d been sitting for five months of his last term was the hoosegow, after a federal fraud conviction.
Walsh’s campaign — with its $5.7-million-and-growing war chest — also shows all signs of readying itself for a battle, bringing on national Democratic consultants SDSKnickerbocker, and the campaign just hired Liz Vlock, who ran comms for U.S. Sen. Ed Markey’s successful primary and general re-election campaigns this year.
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