Two new candidates – including a woman from Dorchester who sought one of four at-large seats on the Boston City Council in 2019 – emerged as potential contenders for citywide council this week. Two incumbent city councillors Michael Flaherty and Julia Mejia are both expected to mount re-election campaigns to hold onto their citywide seats. But, with two at-large councillors,
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Joel Richards, currently a teacher at the Blackstone Elementary School in the South End, has announced he s running for the District 4 (Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale) seat that Andrea Campbell is giving up to run for mayor.
Richards lists his top issues as equity in education, housing for all and supporting small businesses.
Another BPS teacher is also thinking of running for the seat: Trevour Smith, a math teacher at Boston Latin School.
Over in District 7 (Roxbury, South End), Angelina Camacho, who ran in 2017, is running again for the seat Kim Janey won that year. Janey, currently council president, will become mayor once Marty Walsh goes to Washington; she has yet to say if she will try to become a more permanent mayor or run for reelection to her council seat.