City Hall Shakeup
By Josh Resnek
The talk of the city is the outcome of last week’s municipal election.
If you are the mayor, you can think of nothing else even though he tells the yes men surrounding him that the election didn’t mean anything.
The election meant everything.
The results are mind numbing.
For the mayor, they are, frankly, incomprehensible, a disaster of the first order.
It is as if everyone he told to vote his way voted another way and the outcome was like handwriting on the wall – and this isn’t just me writing hyperbole – it is Everett voters understanding exactly what they did.
No one likes being told by the mayor who to vote for because they work for the city.
City employees showed their independence of him voting for their hearts rather than letting him pull their strings.
For the likes of his cousin Councilor Anthony DiPierro and his paid lackey and comrade in arms Gerry Navarro, last week’s outcomes across the board went against the mayor.
Navarro once told me recently the mayor could never be beaten. “He’ll be the mayor forever,” he said to me.
“That’s a bad bet, Gerry, following the outcome of this election,” I’d tell him.
“He’s not going to be the mayor forever and this election proved it.”
Let’s start at the top of the list of those the mayor supported who all lost and work downward.