001all politics is local with John featherston an in-depth and comprehensive look at Massachusetts political news and current events to another edition of all politics is local I'm your host John today's just going to be a quick episode we're GNA talk about uh mayor woo Boston mayor woo testimony in front of Congress today uh a lot to get to a lot to talk about a lot of controversial things uh let's run to the clip and have mayor woo talk about Tom homman hman shame on him for lying about my city for having the nerve to insult our Police Commissioner who has overseen the safest Boston's B in anyone's lifetime bring him here under oath and let's ask him some questions I am here to make sure that the city of Boston is safe others may want
002to bring hell we are here to bring peace to cities everywhere mayor Woo is doubling down and and calling out borders are Tom Holman uh mayor wo quick question if Boston's the safest it's ever been uh why did an off-duty police officer have to kill somebody this week at a Chick-fil-A because he was going to do a stabbing why is record crime going on in the city of Boston mayor woo made a comment today in front of Congress saying that Boston is the safest city because it's a welcoming City and you know what in concept I agree with that I agree with that 100% that we that City should be a welcoming committee but there is no way Boston is the safest Community you know I had the pleasure and honor of raising my family
003in the Metro West Boston area and the Boston that I knew when I was friends with mayor monino and the Boston I know today as a planning commissioner in the state of Massachusetts you can't comp compare the two Boston is not the same as it was 20 years ago under monino Boston is not the same as it is because of Mayor wo's policies now granted if mayor Ru wants to be a sanctuary City that's her but you know things come with consequences Tom Holman has made the comment that he's going to bring hell to Boston and that's a controversial statement and I'll be the first one to say it's a controversial statement but what Tom homan's going to do is he's going to bring Law and Order to Boston he is going to come and
004get the rapist the drug traffickers the sex traffickers off the streets of Boston and any elected official who has a problem with that then I have a problem with them because the first job of government is to protect the vulnerable the first job of government is to protect the people and if you're going to protect known criminals and we'll get to a clip here in a minute that unfortunately I have firsthand knowledge of but if you're going to protect known criminals over the safety and sanctuary of your own children then we've got a real real problem here in Massachusetts governor Healey and mayor woo keep walking the line is is Massachusetts is Boston a sanctuary city is massachusett a sanctuary State I will tell you just based on their actions not on their words because
005their words never match their actions but just based on their actions Massachusetts and Boston are a sanctuary State now you can say okay well that's that's their choosing that's the will of the people that is the will of the people but then you can't say that Boston is the safest that it's ever been you C you don't have the data to back it up you don't have the reality to back it up you don't have facts to back it up and more importantly talk to a Boston police officer they're not going to tell you that you know I mean seriously when was the last time you you you know on a Saturday night you heard somebody was being stabbed at a Chick-fil-A thank God an off-duty Boston police officer was there to to uh help
006out with the situation and then you have the mayor not only not thank the off-duty police officer but give condolences for the person who was trying to stab people I mean you you just can't make it up you can't make it up but believe it or not that was not the most outrageous thing that happened today during the Congressional hearings let me set the table for you a little bit uh it's probably not unknown that I was running a migrant shelter in marbor for quite some time and last May May of 20124 a DCF agent came to me and said hey we got a real big problem I need to talk to you about something I said well okay I'm in the middle of something give me a couple minutes I'll come in so I
007took her into my office and sat her down and you know CH pleasantries and she's like I'm not here for what you think I'm here for and I thought she was here because we had a teenage migrant who we found out was pregnant and at the time we assumed she got pregnant from her boyfriend and you know the classic saying uh never assume uh because it turned out that she was not impregnated by her boyfriend she was actually impregnated by her own father the father uh committed multiple times of rape with his daughter and when confronted by DCF he was actually proud of the fact that uh he had gotten his own daughter pregnant well today in in the Congressional hearings the chairman uh Congressman comr asked mayor woo about this incident last year in
008a Boston suburb an illegal alien raped and impregnated his 14-year-old daughter while living in a shelter for illegal aliens mayor woo under under Boston law would you turn this criminal over to ice on a detainer whenever there's a criminal warrant Boston police enforce that and hold people accountable so would you turn that criminal over to ice this happened outside the city of Boston but I can tell you in the city whenever someone commits a crime whenever there's a criminal warrant we hold them accountable if I steems that they are dangerous enough to hold obtain a criminal warrant and the Boston police will enforce it will you do turn that criminal over to ice we follow the laws last year so there you go she will not even admit that a man who impregnates his own
009teenage daughter that she will not turn that person over to ice for a detainer so I mean what what more do you need what I mean what more do you need to you know see it's not the first case you know in in and to her credit to W credit it did not happen in Boston it did happen in maror yes but there are many other numerous cases commissioner Cox the Boston Police Commissioner has flat out said that he is not going to help Ice uh now you can sit sit there and say that it's you know Boston law it's Massachusetts law but what I guess the bigger question that we have to talk about in today's world is isn't public safety the most important thing because everything comes back to Public Safety in politics
010everything comes back to Public Safety you send your kids off to school you assume that they're going to a school where they're not going to be shot you know and the school shootings that happen in this nation are are horrible you assume when you put your kid on a school bus the school bus is not going to an accident you have faith in the institution that they're going to take care care of your kids and that they're going to be safe you're gonna have safe roads for your kids to go to school on you're gonna have a a safe school for your kids to learn in but you just had a ma a mayor in a major city in America one of the greatest cities of all time in the history of the United States
011of America in front of Congress testified that she would not turn over a man who rapes his own daughter to ice have we lost all sense of common sense now listen I Am pro immigrant we are a country based on immigration we are a country based on the values of supporting immigrants if you come here legally and you follow the laws and you are not a you know a criminal America is is a dream it's still the land of opportunity it's still but I don't understand why politicians Mor hey and mayor woo Elizabeth Warren even want to double down and now say that you know like we protect everybody no we don't protect the criminals we should not protect the criminals we do protect the criminals and because in this case in marbor I was
012told by the marbor police transfer him to Worcester and with my Municipal experience and working you know with law enforcement over the years I literally turned to the police officer and said Worcester is a different County than marbor marbor is in Middle sex County Worcester is in Worcester County and the police officer said to Mew why does that matter I said because if I transfer this man from middlex County to Worcester County the da is never going to touch this case because the crime didn't happen in his community and the police officer looked at me with a look of like oh well he got me uh and said yeah you're right but we'll figure it all out well it took eight months to figure it all out and the only reason this man was ever
013arrested is because I continued to push the story in the National media was first picked up by the daily wire then it was picked up by Fox News so much so that the Boston Globe even did a scathing story on morah Healy about how morah Healy tried to cover this up and only then and only then when the Boston Globe uh choose to cover the story was this man finally arrested and he'll have his first court date at the end of March here even today after uh mayor Woo's testimony my phone rang probably five or six times with national media looking for a quote for me uh about the case but never once this happened in May of 2024 and now we're in March of 2025 has one Boston Legacy Media TV station called and
014asked for a single comment on this case so it just goes back to proof that you know the journalism that we all grew up with and that we all knew is no longer exists and you know it actually adds to the value of why Community media is so important because there is no more balance in media now if you don't like what I'm saying today and you're entitled to your opinion I'm just speaking the facts but if you don't like what I'm saying and you want to go more to the May mayor woo side of the thing that's great but at least there's balance there's two sides to every story there's actually three sides to every story Yours Mine and then then the truth and what you're not getting in the in the Boston Legacy
015Media is you're not getting the truth how can this story go National and become part of congressional committee hearings and no one in the Boston media wants to talk about it that is a big concern uh I'm surprised mayor woo did attend uh she she looked well rehearsed and well coached and and at the price tag of $650,000 to the taxpayers of Boston uh I think she did you know she I don't agree with her testimony but I think she did better than what I anticipated that she do but if I was a taxpayer in Boston I would be furious that that c came at the cost of $650,000 of legal prep for the testimony that she gave today and she did just once again prove to the nation that Boston is a sanctuary City
016and like I say if Boston wants to be a sanctuary City okay great but it does come with consequences and those consequences are are going to play out over the years they're going to play out over the months and but I strongly disagree with mayor woo that Boston's the safest it's ever been and I cannot wait for the moment that Tom homman comes and restores Law and Order listen I don't want Tom Homan going into schools I don't want Tom Homan going into to churches I don't want him going in the hospitals I want him to come to Massachusetts and get the worst of the worst off of the street and that's what I think that he's going to do and uh that's going to do it for another edition of all politics is local
017like I said we're going to do a quick one and we'll talk again real soon