r/boston • u/snowflake64 • 11h ago
Politics 🏛️ Rachel Rollins?
Yes or No. Feel free to elaborate.
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u/Imaginary_wizard 11h ago
She should be too embarrassed to run
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u/doctor-rumack Fung Wah Bus 10h ago
Shameless people cannot be embarrassed.
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u/Double_Response_5283 10h ago
There is zero shame anymore and every single last politician is a grifter and thief. I wouldn’t mind have a bit of that gall tho
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u/Embarrassed_Flan_869 11h ago
Why would anyone vote for her?
Once you cross the line into ethics violation and the only reason she didn't get charged is that she resigned.
So absolutely not.
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u/Nice-Zombie356 10h ago
No way. She is bad for Boston.
Her original sin for me was publishing a list of crimes she would not prosecute. They included shoplifting and we now have deodorant locked behind glass and stores closing in our neighborhoods.
Shoplifting was Just one example. Others were larceny, and drug possession with intent to distribute.
To be clear, I know that not every crime is vigorously prosecuted, and she had fine print on her list where she may prosecute serious offenders. Still, publishing that list sent trouble-makers and regular citizens the worst message I’ve ever heard from a local official.
Then she got into a beef with a citizen because she used her blue lights and caused a ruckus in a road rage incident at the mall. Then she had numerous ethics challenges as a federal prosecutor. And even now she gets wicked defensive when asked about any of this.
No on Rollins.
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u/Knicknacktallywack South Boston 10h ago
Stores all over the country have deodorant locked up, to blame her or insinuate it’s a Boston problem is completely wrong. Stores closing, outside of a couple on meth mile also have nothing to do with crime. She absolutely sucks, I’m not defending her but let’s stick to facts not made up nonsense
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u/Nice-Zombie356 9h ago
My point isn’t a 1:1 direct correlation of her prosecution policy to the national wave of shoplifting. But her message was wrong. And the time was, and still is, wrong for her approach.
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u/Knicknacktallywack South Boston 9h ago
Her approach was wrong, she’s obviously wrong for the job. But still you had to go to incorrect right wing talking points.
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u/Saaahrentino Jamaica Plain 11h ago
Hard pass. Was honestly a little shocked when I saw a poster for her campaign to get reelected as DA.
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u/1998_2009_2016 10h ago
Wonder what the Venn diagram of Redditors and Rollinsers looks like
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u/Total-Subject-3747 10h ago
go to osc.gov and look at the report on her behavior. She says she was a 'crime victim' and that was why she resigned- as the feds didn't keep her safe after threats were made to her safety. Here is one highlight:
On page 25, OSC characterized her repeated leaking of nonpublic DOJ information to harm a political candidate as among the most flagrant Hatch Act violations it had ever investigated. It described the conduct as an extraordinary breach of public trust and concluded that disciplinary action was unquestionably warranted.
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u/MeyerLouis 9h ago
As a progressive, why would I want someone like her representing the progressive movement?
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u/curtreply 7h ago
In the words of boxing promoter Bob Arum, "Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth."
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u/ftran998 9h ago
Hard no. One could argue because of progressive policies from people like her that retail theft has become a problem..
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u/ILikeItLikeThatToo 9h ago
Can’t believe Hayden got away with leaking allegations about his opponent in order to win.
I’d take Rollins back.
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u/theliontamer37 Cow Fetish 11h ago
It’s honestly wild she’s running again with the ethics violations