Marty Walsh
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Marty Walsh is the Mayor of Boston who navigates the challenges of urban governance with a focus on collaboration and community engagement. This interview highlights his commitment to understanding diverse perspectives and fostering unity in addressing pressing social issues.
“But even then you have time to think about where you're going to land on it as mayor. It's like, okay, what's your position on this? Something breaks today, you know, immigration when Trump did the executive order on immigration. I literally walked to my office. It was three o'clock. I saw what he had done. I'm looking at it.”
“That are here for protection. And I think that we're looking through the immigrant lenses through one lens, and the immigrant lens is very complicated.”
“But not only that, you keep the cultures and traditions going. And then as I got older, I realized that every nationality did that. And then as an elected official, as a state representative first, and I was mayor, the importance of that, you know, so as mayor now, I go to celebrations all the time of cultural celebrations.”
“I think first going in, you know, excited that I won the race, thinking about how do you follow a 20-year incumbent. And very early on, realizing that people didn't know any other way of governing except for Meyer Minilo's style, which they welcomed a new idea because they weren't used to a new idea.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh
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