After Marty Walsh won the Boston mayoral race last night, Vice President Joe Biden tried to call him with congratulations. But the Cape Code Times reports Biden called political consultant and former Sen. Ted Kennedy staffer Marty Walsh instead of the candidate who won.
Said the non-mayor elect: “We’ve had this for the past 20 years happening
back and forth. Marty tells a funny story from 2006 when Kennedy thanked
me from the stage and his mother thought it was for him.”
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