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Tania Fernandes Anderson has already made history in all kinds of ways, and this irrepressible trailblazer just keeps on making more. Anderson has amassed an impressive list of firsts to put alongside her name: she is the first former illegal migrant to win a seat on the Boston City Council. As she hails from Cape Verde, she is also the first African-born member of the Boston City Council, and the first Muslim to serve on the Boston City Council. This intrepid breaker of glass ceilings is not, however, the first convicted felon to serve on the Boston City Council; there were others before her. But that doesn’t make her remarkable achievements any less impressive, now, does it?
The problem now is that Anderson appears reluctant to get out of the way. Boston’s ABC affiliate, WCVB 5, reported Thursday that Fernandes Anderson “signed a plea agreement in connection with an alleged kickback scheme.” She is pleading guilty to “taking a $7,000 kickback from a relative she hired at Boston City Hall,” and if that isn’t tawdry enough for you, “the cash exchange happened in a city hall bathroom.”
Fernandes Anderson has promised to resign, and even “issued a written statement in which she asked for forgiveness from her constituents.” Her resignation, however, has not been forthcoming. In fact, she even showed up for a city council meeting on Wednesday, and now some of her colleagues are fed up. Councilor at-Large Erin Murphy declared on Thursday: “I’m not waiting. The residents of District 7 deserve leadership and a voice at City Hall. I’ve filed a resolution to make sure we’re ready to move swiftly and schedule a special election as soon as the law allows.”
Can Boston hold an election for a city council seat that is currently filled? WCVB says no: “While she remains a Boston city councilor and is still collecting a paycheck from the city, a special election can’t be scheduled until she officially resigns.” And nothing is requiring Fernandes Anderson to resign. There doesn’t even seem to be any specific law preventing Fernandes Anderson from continuing to serve on the city council while also serving the year in prison to which she is likely to be sentenced. (She also has to return the seven grand, plus $6,000 more in a fine.)
Her fellow councilors, however, are anxious to be rid of her. Murphy said: “Elected officials are entrusted with representing the public honestly and ethically, not abusing their power for personal gain. Such actions erode public trust and perpetuate the damaging belief that our City Council is unworthy of the confidence of those we serve. Boston deserves better.” Sure it does, but if Bostonians were smart (and let’s face it, most of them are leftists), they’ll reexamine the reasons why they got into this fix in the first place, so as to avoid making the same mistakes again.
Tania Fernandes Anderson, after all, is on the city council in the first place because Bostonian leftists, no doubt including many other city councilors, thought it would be just grand to have a woman who was the trifecta of an African, a Muslim, and a former illegal alien (she became an American citizen in 2019) on the city council. They were more interested in the DEI boxes that Fernandes Anderson checked off than in her competence, honesty, or fitness for the position. If Tania Fernandes Anderson’s undoubtedly winning personality were somehow transported into the body of a white American non-Muslim male, the resulting person would never have been elected to the Boston city council.
And so now Bostonian leftists have what they wanted. They wanted a third-world city councilor, and now they have a third-world city councilor. And so they should be happy. There’s just one possible fly in the ointment. Fernandes Anderson’s plea agreement stipulates that she could now be deported: “Defendant understands that, if defendant is not a United States citizen by birth, pleading guilty may affect defendant’s immigration status. Defendant agrees to plead guilty regardless of any potential immigration consequences, even if defendant’s plea results in automatically being removed from the United States.”
Beantown leftists need not worry. All is not lost! If Tania Fernandes Anderson has to head back to Cape Verde, there are no doubt plenty of other corrupt illegal migrants who would be positively thrilled to take a seat on the Boston city council. The DEI boxes can easily remain safely checked!
“And so now Bostonian leftists have what they wanted,” says Robert Spencer. “They wanted a third-world city councilor, and now they have a third-world city councilor.” More than that, “Bostonistan” now has a third-world city council.
And I thought San Jose is bad. I think I’d rather live in Hell than Boston. What a shithole.
Guess the corrupt law firm dealings in the scripts for the old Boston Legal series were spot on. The governments in the new England states of Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts just seem predictably depressing, these days. Not unlike California, yes?
I still say that all she needs is a firm hand and good dick. Chicks like to play games but they get in line when you put them there.
She does seem quite horrible though.
No surprise coming from the Democratic People’s Republic of Boston (or Massachusetts). This leftist one-party sanctuary city/state government competes with Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle (among other Democrat-controlled cities) for levels of corruption and radical policies. The GOP org is just controlled opposition. There is a reason there is a net outflow of residents in spite of the tech hub businesses.
Not to mention unaffordability.
Just think she will get Three Meals a Day and Free Room and Board Via the American Taxpayers
Better to spend the couple thou for a one way plane ticket back to Cape Verde. And good riddance to bad rubbish. THUS is what SHOULD happen.
I know when I emigrated to Canada some years back I was very plainly told in unambiguous terms that if I ever was in a situation where I became dependent upon the government for my continued existence they would quickly reward me with a one way plane ticket back to the nearest airport to where i lived in the USA prior to immigration. They would also provide me the “courtesy” of an escort from my then-residence to said airport. Armed. That “gift package” would also include a lifetime ban fro premiership ofm ever entering Canada again.
That was back in the day of the premiership of Trudeau Pére. Crooked as he was, and perverse his punk “kid” is nowhere near as smart or as diplomatic as he was.
she has no worries after all she has Three Males a day and a now home Via the American Tax Payers
Note to Tania Fernandes: Corrupt, ugly, fat and stupid is no way to go through life.
Guess what. You are going jail. Hopefully you and Jassy Crockett will be roommates some day. WTF is it with black women in politics.
Oh Robert, there’s so much more to this story. She’s married to a man (the Anderson part of her last name) who’s incarcerated for life for murder in MA. And she married this guy while he was incarcerated. She’s been a foster “mother” to dozens of children (you know that wasn’t a grift-it was for the children *wink*wink). Her mouth runs constantly, yelling how she’s a strong black woman and no one should be talking when the melodic tones of her voice are speaking. She bangs on the table while yelling. She’s a certified lunatic.
After 30+ years in the Boston area, I finally left a year ago and went south. I couldn’t take it any longer, especially after the Covid tyranny that went on there. There are so many corrupt politicians in MA. They have a plethora of them. Even after so many years there, I still can’t believe they get elected. But then again, MA is run by Marxists. They are the mini me to CA.
“Elected officials are entrusted with representing the public honestly and ethically, not abusing their power for personal gain.” … and when one of us gets caught with our hand in the cookie jar, it casts a bad light on us elected officials who have thus far been able to hide our crimes.
Great news.
Illhan Omar should be next.
One can only hope…
INGRATE!! Revoke her citizenship and deport her – I doubt she could hold her DEMOcrat seat if she was no longer a citizen or a RESIDENT! BUT, given this is Boston, who knows??
Can’t she be fired?
She can still remain in office and zoom in for city council meetings from jail. Even if deported why not the same? Right? Bostonians would vote for that?
Such a shame to see this kind of thing happening here, when one considers the rich history this State had in our countries founding…really makes me sad to see…
I can’t decide which is worse, Boston or Canada!!