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Marty Walsh

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  1. “We have to clamp down on, and I still don't think that anyone, I don't think that the pharmaceutical industry has learned their lesson. I just don't think they have. And I think my concern now is they're trying to come up with drugs to block the craving. So what they're doing is creating another industry to combat addiction. It can't just be a drug. You take a drug to stop addiction. There has to be more to it.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Not a lot. I think the federal government needs to have more of a stake in this. And this goes back 10, 15 years. I don't think you can't tell the federal government can't tell us how to do it, but they need to create more funding opportunities and really figure out how to deal with the issue. And I think also clamping down on the board is the one place I'll say a lot of drugs coming into the country. But that's one step. On the other step, we have a lot of legal drugs in our own country.”

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  3. “It's very complicated. It's a very complicated issue. The federal government, the Obama administration was really the first administration to start to deal with this issue during the presidential campaign. One positive light during that whole campaign, two years ago, three years ago, was that almost every candidate Republican Democrat uniformly across the board talked about addiction openly as far as an issue to tackle. I think that's a lot.”

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  4. “I think because people think I have the answers to it, and it's not that simple. I mean, as a mayor, you know, we created the Office of Recovery Services in Boston and were able to do some good things in the city of Boston, but the opioid crisis we have is a nationwide killer. And it's difficult to, I don't have all the answers. And I think that nobody has the answers. I mean, it's a complicated situation. I'm reading the book, Dreamland right now, that is incredible insight into the whole world of addiction from the drugs coming from another country, from Mexico to the painkillers produced here in the United States of America to addiction in the streets and how law enforcement deals with it. I mean, it's not a simple solution. And I think that, you know, when I'm talking to a parent or talking to somebody in recovery that's in the grips of addiction, I mean, I know how to talk to that individual person. And I think that, you know,”

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  5. “If it wants me to change my number, and you know, a lot of people have the number, but it's important not to miss the call, whatever call it might be. Some of you might be looking for help or text, you know, somebody from the past. Or even when if I go to a meeting, I give my number to somebody at the meeting I give my cell phone. And right after I got elected to Mayor of Boston, I gave my number to a person at the meeting. He called me up a couple days later and just talked to me and didn't realize. And then like five days later, he goes, oh my God. Like he had no idea what my role was, my job was. But it's too important. I just want to miss that call. I mean, a lot of people have the number.”

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  6. “Yeah, not as many as I'd like to, but I still go, yeah, you have to go because it keeps me grounded and it keeps me focused on what's important.”

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  7. “What happened for me, and this is a saying people say in recovery, the grace of God into my life. And there was a moment of clarity. And that moment of clarity was the exact right time for me. And I'm sure there are other people that were sitting next to me in front of me, behind me in that same detox that probably died, that didn't get the same message I did that night. And my life got turned around because of that.”

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  8. “But got into recovery, and my life just everything's not to fall in place for me and things got clearer when I say Clara, I mean my decisions were better. I was able to be a better coach. I was able to be a better son. I was able to be a better employee. I was able to be responsible in showing up. And things got really good for me.”

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  9. “Yeah, that was way back in the day. Wrong place, wrong time. I was 22 years old. It shouldn't have been where I was. It was late night out drinking at night and a bunch of us there and a fight happened between different group of people we happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. But even that wasn't an eye-opener at three o'clock in the morning on the street. There's nothing good happens at 3 o'clock in the morning.”

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  10. “And the first night I was there. People came in, they were talking about their experience through alcoholism and recovery. And I got hope. I was there for a week. I got out of there. I started to go to meetings. I was seeing a counselor at the time because my life got better. And my life got really better. I wasn't blocking out. I wasn't doing things I wasn't hurting people”

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  11. “Laughed it off, but I knew inside there was as time went on, there was more and more serious things happening to me and more and more problems that was encountering. And again, as I said earlier, it's an inside game and really outside I was smiling and I was involved and active in the community and active in different campaigns, but inside I was hurting and I knew that my life was spiraling out of control. I ended up going to detox to get the pressure off me, not to stop drinking, but to get the pressure off me to try and tell everyone around me, all right, I'm in detox. I'm going to be good.”

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  12. “People I work with. People I work with brought it to my attention. A couple people I work with would throw an AA book on my desk every now and then. I'd see the book there. So I just knew.”

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  13. “Yeah, I took a job with though. I was a laborer in the field and I went to work in the office. And during that time, always wanting to go back to college. I did about a year and a half in college and never quite could get back in there. And what was happening was I was out there having a good time partying at night and going to work on the day and being involved in the community and coaching and all that stuff trying to keep that front up and this front up and the drinking went from being fun to churning. And I was finding myself drinking almost every night with different groups of people. And my life is starting to spiral out of control at this particular moment. And, you know, I saw it. Not everyone around me saw it per se.”

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  14. “I figured something happened with Kevin White in the labor moment. They were upset with him, so we were Timothy. And I remember I was about seven or eight holding a sign at a rally. And then my uncle Pat ran for the business manager's job for the labors union. And his name was on a sticker. And he was the guy who's my godfather, and I loved him. And seeing his name on a sticker, that kind of spocked it for me. And then as time went on, I got involved in campaigns all over the place. I was always involved in campaign. The candidates I went with usually lost, but I believed in them, which is fine because you'll learn more in a loss than you're doing a victory. And when the time came for me to run for state representative, I knew that I wanted it. I had been sober now almost two years.”

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  15. “Oh, yeah, he absolutely did. I had in my blood. You know, my father, I think one of the first rides I went to, my father took me to, I think it was a mayoral race in Boston. Kevin White was the sitting mayor and Joe Timmelty was running against him.”

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  16. “And you focus on the issues that you care about and you have very difficult votes. In that time, I had votes on taxes and other things that we had to deal with. But you get through it and you realize that I didn't vote for taxes for the sake of raising taxes. I wrote it for taxes because we had a deficit in the budget. And one of the tax votes I did was for infrastructure money. So every time I took a vote on raising taxes and I did it three times, it was to offset a hole that was happening. And I think that that's some, you'll listen to advice too along the way. And I think it's important as an elected official, you can never stop listening to somebody. You always have to listen because if you think you know it all, and I've seen it too much, it's all over Washington today, where people know it all. If they know it all, and that's part of the problem with them getting to an understanding in Washington, because everyone thinks they know it all. And they really don't. And a lot of them, a lot of people aren't even listening to their constituents, and you really have to listen to your constituents. You might vote against your constituency once in a while.”

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  17. “And when he said that to me, it delighted the light one off. And I realized that in order for me to get to my next stop, whatever that might be down the road, I didn't know what it was going to be. Just do the best job I can possibly do that I'm in. And I was a state representative in the legislature. And for 16 years, I just did that job. And I did the best of my ability in no opportunity presented itself that I was excited about until the mayor of Boston when the mayor announced he wasn't running again, I was ready to go for that seat. And if I hadn't listened to this advice of this man, who was just a political guy from the neighborhood that just said it was common sense, easy line, throwaway line he gave me. I realized, wow, he's absolutely right. And for 16 years, I just did my job.”

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  18. “Yeah, it is a story in 1998. I was in the paper. I might run for city council. And then there's another story I might run for Congress and I might run for Senate and I might run for this and I might run for that. And a friend of mine, this guy Danny, Danny Ryan from Savanhill, an older guy, said to me, I know you want to be somewhere else, but why don't you just be the best rep you can be?”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Through some of these big decisions you had to make. It helps you through seeing a bad story about you in the newspaper. It helps you through complications in your private life. So living your life that way, I think that strengthens you on top of the cancer situation. Same as cancer, I have seven. So I don't remember the treatment. But you can't wake up one day and be diagnosed with cancer and the next day it's gone. So there's a process of treatment that you have to go through. And again, it's a day-to-day time process. And you hope at the end of the day.”

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  20. “And when you're battling, whether it's alcoholism or depression and there's moments in your life that you just have no place to turn and you kind of shelter into this world that you don't think anyone cares about you and you don't know what to do and you can't get out of it and you keep making the same wrong decisions over and over and over again. And I think once you deal with the issue of addiction, anyone who's listening tonight, if you're struggling with addiction, go for help. Ask for help because it does get better. And you realize that, you know, it's probably the biggest decision that you're going to make in your life getting into recovery. And it will put your life on a path that's second to none and be able to deal with a day at a time. And that's one thing that's helped me in my life, in my career as a person dealing with it's a day at a time. I can't do anything about tomorrow. Yesterday's gone. I can only focus on today. And I think that those challenges, that helped me through the MAS race running for Mayor in 2013. That helped me.”

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  21. “It didn't really have a lot, but what happened was for me my first real challenge as a legislator in realizing when you're running for office and first time running, you know, you can support whatever you want to say and you're going to do this and do this and do that. And now front and center is probably one of the biggest votes I'll ever take as a legislator and really not understanding during the campaign for mayor saying I would probably support a bill that would bring the death penalty for the loss of an officer, police officer or some type official. But now you really have to sit down and think about i talk to hundreds of people and I literally switched my mind every day. I'd get a compelling story why we should have the death penalty. I'd say, okay, I'm leaning towards this. And then I'd get a story the next day about how it doesn't work and it doesn't work on changed my mind again. And it really made me take a good look inside, reflecting myself. So subconsciously, you know, dealing with cancer and maybe addiction made me have a clearer.”

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  22. “Yeah, there was a lot of pleas. And it was just the police. It was almost like, in some ways, it's a lot like the same folks that are angry about immigration. They wanted the death penalty vote. And it was a tough vote in a lot of cases. A lot of reps got threatened. The Speaker of the House had to have police security and the gentleman who switched his vote had to get security as well. So it was a tough vote.”

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  23. “The death penalty was a bad one because at the time a young boy had been killed right before that. And it was high profile. And the governor was Republican at the time. He was for the death penalty. The Senate was for it as well. And the House of Representatives, we had a vote in enactment of the bill, and it was 8179 to support the death penalty. Went over to the Senate. And so at that moment, I thought to myself, I voted against the death penalty after a lot of debate in my head. It was my first real vote as a legislator. I was in office literally two and a half months when this happened. But I said, okay, it passed, but the heat was off because it's going to come back and pass here. And, you know, I did everything I could to defeat it. And when it came back to the House after the Senate, one of the members switched his vote for me yes to a no, and it was a tie, which defeated the bill. And at the time, it was tough because people were angry. I mean, they kept talking about this little boy, Jeffrey Curly, who had passed since then. His dad has switched position on the death penalty.”

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  24. “Think at the time it didn't necessarily shape me, but when you look, yeah, it definitely shaped me as a fighter and overcoming obstacles. I think that you can realize that you have an opportunity here. For me, I guess you can argue it's my first second chance I got in life that I had. I don't realize it till later in life. But, you know, it could have gotten very different. And, you know, obviously I could have passed from it. And I wouldn't have had the opportunities that I have today. And hopefully during my time as elected official, change the course of what we've had. I mean, when I was a rep in 1997, I vote against the death penalty. It was a tie vote. We defeated it, kept it off the ballot. And in 2004, I supported gay marriage in Massachusetts, and I was proud of that. And I think that, you know, you look back on some of the things that different turning points in people's lives, if it didn't happen, what happens in the future?”

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  25. “No, I didn't know. I was seven, so I didn't really know what was going on. I know I was in the hospital a lot. I could pretty much do the job of the doctors. I mean, I know too much about bone marrows and spinal taps and things like that and IVs and things like that. But, you know, I think at seven, you don't really realize it. I think they kind of kept it for me a little bit. We had a lot of visitors. And I remember one Thanksgiving going home for the day and house was full of people and then coming back to hospital that night. But I'm fortunate. I'm blessed. I mean, I think my mother would say it's the medicine and the prayers and miracles. And she'll give a lot of credit to my faith, to our faith that pulled me through that. And I don't disagree with her.”

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  26. “It was four years roughly. Yeah, I was in the hospital large amounts of time, I had surgery, they opened me up exploratory surgery, and then I had all the things you have for that treatment. And at the time, I want to say it was 30% survival rate for that type of cancer. Today it's 90%. And obviously,”

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  27. “A couple must live, and they said there's two options one is to go for this treatment and try this experimental treatment, or two, take me back to see my grandparents and stuff back in Ireland, and my mother and father chose the first route of action to try the medicine. And, you know, I thank God they did.”

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  28. “Yeah, he'd burke at some former childhood cancer. I was treated at 1974, treated the Jimmy Fund, the Dana Farber in Children's Hospital. And at the time that the treatment was exploratory, radiation chemotherapy and a whole...”

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  29. “And I think it's sad. I think a lot of it too is just people making decisions and listening to other folks talking. And there's a lot of hate going around right now. And I think that's a bad message for us as Americans to be sending around the country. I think we've been divide the country for a long time now, but I think it's even more divided as we continue to move into the future here.”

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  30. “We have 20% of our residents are foreign born, 48% are first generation. So if immigrants were that bad for our economy and so bad for our culture,”

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  31. “I don't think it's across the country. I think it's in certain areas. I think in urban America, when I go to urban cities, I think it's less threatening. I was in Chicago now for a couple days and I watch what's going on. I see a lot of different nationalities and cultures walking around. Everyone's kind of working together. I was in New York a couple weeks ago. I went to see Hamilton the play. But while I was having dinner, Laurie and myself looking around seeing different cultures and traditions there as well. And I think that in a lot of ways it's not understanding what that culture is. In some cases, it's forgetting. I mean, generations forget that, you know, most of us in America just one or two or three generations away from being immigrants ourselves. And I think they kind of forgot that. And I think that I look at Boston as a city that is doing incredible, meaning we've approved $20 billion worth of development in the last four years. We've built more housing than almost any other period in the history of our city. We have our schools are strong. We have more work to do in our schools, which you can talk about. But a lot of great things are happening.”

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  32. “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 was at one this weekend, Vietnamese New Year, where you have, again, all immigrants in a room celebrating their traditions and cultures, but also adding to our economy, adding to our America, making it so great. And that's what really meant what makes America great again. It's keeping that tradition culture.”

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  33. “Involved with the church, involved with the neighborhood, my mother as well. My mother worked as a housekeeper when she first came to the country. She was a nanny. And then when she had the two of us, my brother and myself, she stayed home. And then my brother got to about eighth grade. She went back to work and she was a housekeeper and taking care of older people. So that work ethic transcended over to West, I think, in a lot of ways. And that is.”

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  34. “My father became a laborer in the trades. The laborer is the construction that cleans the job site, cleans the toilets, does all that stuff. My father worked hard every day of his life. He went to church a lot of days as an immigrant, raised two boys, you know, certainly worked very hard every day.”

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  35. “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. And you look back in history, whether it's under the Reagan administration or the Bush administration when we had the Cubans coming into America, we had people from South America coming into America over the border through both those presidencies that were accepted. Again, I think the issue is a lot bigger than that. I think to solve it, we need immigration reform. The Senate, I guess, tried to attempt doing it the other day, but they clearly didn't do it. So they're not really dealing with the issue properly, in my opinion.”

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  36. “Unless it deals with them, unless they know an immigrant that might be losing their status in the country. They say, wait a second, he's a good guy. And I've heard that story as well. We have a restaurant owner in Boston that was a big Trump supporter. And when the immigrant issues came down from the White House, the executive orders, his response was, wait, my guy's a good guy. You know, my guy's caught up in this thing. And I think it's unfair. I mean, I think it's unfair. I think in a lot of ways it's bait and switch what we should be dealing with as a country we're not dealing with because every time it seems like this White House goes into protective mode they talk about immigration when in fact that you know there's a way to deal with immigration it's past comprehensive immigration reform building a wall in Mexico and immigration are two very different issues the immigrant issue by the way isn't just about isn't just about undocumented immigrants we have DACA we have we have temporary protective status we have immigrants from Haiti and Nicaragua that are here”

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  37. “You know, I know my family members that couldn't go back home to their parents' funeral because they would be detained at the border. There wasn't proper immigration reform in the country. This was in the 70s and 80s. And then the United States Congress and Senate dealt with it. They put together some amnesty and did some immigration reform. And I think what was happening today in putting a bad light on immigrants is wrong. I mean, trying to broad brush immigrants as criminals, that's just not true. You go to any city in America, you talk to any mayor, you talk to anybody. Immigrants are part of the community, part of the fabric. In a lot of cases, do the jobs that people won't do. They keep the economy moving forward.”

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  38. “Well, it puts an understanding on it for me from the immigrant standpoint. You know, the neighborhood I grew up in was Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, a lot of folks. And then it became Vietnamese and Cape Verdean to some degree and Latino and other areas. So our neighborhood has always been where I live and where I grew up has always been immigrants there. But when I hear people talk about illegal immigrants, it bothers me because, you know, the term, I never use that word. I always talk about undocumented immigrants. And when they talk about the struggles the immigrant community has today, those are the same struggles they had in the 50s and 60s and going back to the early 19ths, you know, it hasn't changed much.”

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  39. “From Gualway Kennamara. My mother was from a place called Rasmock and my father's place called Karna. Yeah, so they met out here in Boston at the Intercolonial Dance Hall, which was a big popular dance hall back in the day in Boston. And it was nice. So full roots off from Ire”

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  40. “Son of immigrants. My mother and father came over from Ireland. My father came over around 56. Mother came out in 59. And”

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