Mayor Michelle Wu
Appearances
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
You know, many days... Of Boston.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
I asked myself that question, too.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
So I grew up in an immigrant family, and it was never, ever in the list of things that you were supposed to think about or do. I just did what my parents wanted, worked hard, played piano, played badminton, did all the things.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And so I found my way to Boston for school. And in the midst of all that, my mom began to really struggle with mental health challenges. So I found myself in my early 20s raising my two younger sisters, taking care of my mom. And Boston has really given me everything that I cherish in my life, the health care that saved my mom's life, the schools that helped me and my family get to where we are.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And now I get to raise my family with my husband, Connor. We have two boys in the schools, a two-month-old little girl.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
The best city in the world.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
You might be surprised by Boston. Next time you come, we'll have to take you around a little more.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
We're an incredibly diverse, welcoming, beautiful city. Okay, that's not true. We are majority people of color. We're 28% people born from another country. And Boston is a place where people have always come for almost 400 years to make good in the world. But also... Okay, don't make me go against New York here. Better sports teams, better quality of life.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
I've been through a lot with my family. And in those hardest moments, it often felt like government was the place we had to fight against instead of something to help us through, you know, in the middle of the emergency room or trying to navigate the school system. And there are so many families out there who are working their hardest, trying to do their best.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And in many ways, we just have to make sure that the supports that are needed are not only there, funded, but also connected to every community. That's what I've been fighting for. I got to serve on the city council for eight years. And that's why we have the mayor.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
It's not a new thing, I would say. I remember all the time growing up, my parents would say to me and my siblings.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
In Mandarin.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
When you grow up, get a job that pays well, is very stable, and won't get you in trouble. So I've now been dragged before Congress, threatened with criminal prosecution, working really hard. But at the end of the day, this is where it matters.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
All of the programs that we put in place to keep the streets clean, to make our schools actually supportive for our students, to protect people in our communities in a really scary moment, that is what city government is for.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
How far do I have to say it? I ran to make sure that families would have a place in our city.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And you back it up with work. Every day that I served on the city council, I was out in neighborhood meetings. I was writing policies that we now have in place to protect our communities and give people opportunity. And it's about making sure that everyone feels part of the decisions that are being made.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Like that's, it's like, you know how the- You're saying I did just turn 40, yes.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Boston is a very passionate city. We cheer hard for our sports teams and people look at politics and government and being involved in the community the same way. And it's pretty hard to make the greatest city on earth even better, but we are working every day to make sure that housing costs can be brought down.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
I think it's that... People have a lot to say, and everyone's voice has a place in our community. And when you have so many decisions that come after a long history also of being a place where, for 400 years, people have stood up for the right thing, fought hard to make a difference, finding that consensus is complicated. It's beautiful. It's a hard job. You can't fake it.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
In Boston, people will call you out. So you have to show up everywhere and keep working. And it's a hard job, but it's the best job. And I love it.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Yeah, we have a lot of different views in Boston, like in every community. I think we tend to be a place that speaks our mind and remembers our history as the community that's always invested in the greater good. We're home to the first public school in the country, the first public park, the first library, free and open to all. And so...
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
You know, at the end of the day, we might not vote the same way or worship the same way or watch the same types of shows or follow the same influencers or whatever. But you still want your streets to have potholes filled. You want your kids to go to the best schools. And you can't get away at the local level with just talking the talk. You really have to be out there making a difference.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Yeah, and you just have to keep...
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
But Boston, even today, is probably different from those days. We are the safest major city in the country. Thank you. But our historically low crime levels now, we're at the lowest levels in at least 70 years when we first started reliably tracking.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And that has come at the same time that we have invested the most in affordable housing, created more affordable housing than in 25 years, invested in the most ever young people in paid summer jobs, early college, childcare.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
There's a lot of work to do everywhere. But I think generally, we want everyone to be involved in Boston. We talk about where we've been, where we need to go. And there's a neighborhood meeting every other day or multiple a day.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Yeah, we are, again, we're the safest city because we're safe for everyone. In a community where over a quarter of your residents come from, were born in another country, if people are afraid to drop their kids off at school or call 911 when they need help or share information when they actually have information to report about a crime that happened, that makes everyone less safe.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Whether or not you are an immigrant, whether or not you're here in this country six generations or just arrived. So we're really focused on being that home for everyone. And it's worked.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And so all of the buzz around, you know, whether these kinds of cities that are more welcoming for immigrants are more dangerous, it's about a false narrative that immigrants are somehow more likely to commit crimes or cause harm. And that is just simply not true.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
We know that in our city, where our immigrant communities, our entrepreneurs are holding up the best hospitals in the country, the universities and jobs that we all rely on. And in order to make sure that we can keep that progress going, everyone has to feel part of it.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
Yeah, and I mean, in some ways, my entire life, I've felt that way. In my family growing up with immigrant parents, government was scary. Government was the thing you were supposed to stay away from. It was parking tickets and taxes and all sorts of things that, you know, you just try to do your thing and stay out of trouble.
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Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
But I got into it because this is how to make a difference. And you can change people's lives every single day by just doing the work, by trying your hardest to focus on what is... stressing out the residents in your community, and day by day building on it to turn that around, involving people in the conversation and becoming a city where, again, we are home for everyone.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
And I think that's what it comes down to. If we do the work, if we listen to what people are saying about what's challenging in their lives. And we really focus on not just today, but tomorrow and the generations to come after us. That is the legacy of Boston, and that's the legacy that I'm really proud to be able to carry on every day.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
I mean, I hear that there's a... Next time you come to Boston, you're going to have to schedule an extra day, and then I will take you around all the city, and then you'll be... To get yelled at by racist white men.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
We are an incredibly diverse and welcoming city. And we're a city that really is the example of how everyone in our community, again, majority, people of color, quarter immigrant, and make friends.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
The Boston of today is a different city than a lot of people think. But even the Boston of today, we have a lot of work to do, just like every city, just like every community.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Republicans Desperately Spin Yemen Group Chat Fumble | Mayor Michelle Wu
A very small group, yes. Aftab and me. Bruce and Todd.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
You know, it's unfortunate to politicize being at the scene of a tragic incident. Our officers are in extremely difficult and dangerous situations every single day, keeping our residents safe. And I express condolences along with our police commissioner and district attorney because every loss of life is a horrible tragedy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
I'm also grateful every hour of every day for the work of our Boston police officers. And in this case, we had an off duty officer who saw something happening. His training kicked in and took action and surely saved even more lives.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
Across the country, we see that access to women's reproductive health care is under attack. People think that we're leading the way on access to care, as we are in so many other areas, but the fact is we're not.