https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-labor-secretary-pick-donated-millions-girlfriend-consulting-firm-boston

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to serve as secretary of labor, gave millions of dollars to girlfriend Lorrie Higgins's employer, campaign filings showed.

Walsh's mayoral campaign funneled close to $1.2 million to LB Strategies, where Higgins is employed as a fundraising consultant, according to the filings. The transactions were originally reported in March 2019.

The payments, which have increased in size to $14,650 per month, amount to more than half of the company's political business since 2013, according to Fox News, which cited campaign filings.

Megan Costello, a Walsh spokesperson, told the Boston Globe in 2019 that the small operation, including owner Laurie Bosio, is tasked with scheduling, managing, and attending his fundraisers, among other duties.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/man-killed-by-police-was-father-of-mayor-walsh-s-girlfriend-s-child/8215601

Updated: 5:14 AM EST Jan 20, 2015

WEYMOUTH, Mass. —

The man shot and killed by police in Weymouth on Monday was the father of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's longtime girlfriend's daughter, the mayor confirmed to NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu.

Lorrie Higgins was in high school when she learned she was pregnant by Paul J. Campbell, seven years her senior. She gave birth to a daughter, Lauren.

Campbell was not part of Higgins' life, but Higgins told the Boston Globe in 2014 that his parents were "very, very good to Lauren and me both."

"It's very sad and it's a private family matter," Walsh said when asked about Campbell's death.

"This is an ongoing investigation and it is not my place to speculate on why or how this happened," Walsh said.

The Norfolk County district attorney said Campbell, 49, was killed by Weymouth police shortly after 1 a.m. Monday after killing his mother, 72-year-old Patricia Campbell.

Police said when they arrived, they found an agitated Campbell with several knives, and the body of his mother with stab wounds on the front steps.

"The two officers appeared to make a simultaneous decision that the use of force was necessary and they both discharged their weapons," Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said.

Campbell was an actor who had small parts in the movies "The Fighter," "Ted" and "American Hustle."

https://www.fff.org/2021/01/15/why-they-hate-trump-so-deeply/

Would you like to know the real reason for the deep, unfathomable, uncontrollable hatred and rage that these people have for Donald Trump?

I’ll tell you what it is.

It is acceptable practice for any politician and bureaucrat to criticize things that happen within the Washington, D.C., sandbox in which these people play. But woe to the politician or bureaucrat who challenges the sandbox itself. He is toast.

No president since John Kennedy has dared to do that. Kennedy did it, especially in his famous Peace Speech at American University five months before he was assassinated. He said that the Cold War was a crock and that he was calling an end to it, which, needless to say, constituted a grave threat to the sandbox in which the national-security establishment had been playing and hoped to continue playing for the indefinite future.

We all know what happened to Kennedy, or at least those of us who are not afraid to examine and challenge the dark inner workings of the national-security state sandbox. No president since Kennedy has dared to do that … until Donald Trump came along.

No matter his faults and failures and poor policy decisions, there is one indisputable fact about Donald Trump: He is not like the rest of the Republican and Democrat politicians or their followers and supporters in the mainstream press. During his campaign, he called them out all. He challenged their sandbox or, if you will, their swamp. He appeared to be willing to take on the military and its forever wars as well as the intelligence community and its nefarious, dark-side activities. He garnered lots of support and votes for that stance.

That’s why they hate him. No politician or bureaucrat is supposed to do that. And certainly no president is supposed to do that. Trump was a threat to their established order. He had to be smashed. He has to be terminated. That’s why they are trying desperately to ensure that he departs the political scene and is never permitted to return.