You just can’t keep Boston’s first Muslim illegal alien city councilwoman down. Not even being arrested by the FBI or pleading guilty for taking kickbacks inside a city hall bathroom was going to keep Tania Fernandes Anderson from going to work each day.
Some members of Congress are complaining that they can’t come to vote in person, but they have no excuse. If the first Muslim illegal alien criminal councilwoman can still come to work after pleading guilty, then so can anyone. (Until they’re locked up.)
But a politician who was accused of planning to “use the money from the scheme to pay a fine issued following an ethics investigation” was never just going to go quietly into the Beantown night.
Embattled Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson dodged news cameras Wednesday during her first City Council hearing since she agreed to plead guilty to federal corruption charges.
“Sorry, I can’t speak with you guys, thank you,” Fernandes Anderson said after telling reporters she would take questions after a city council hearing.
They should have brought an envelope and invited her into a bathroom.
The District 7 councilor appeared in the council chamber a day after the plea agreement was announced, hinting in the meeting that a resignation is on the way.
“I do hope that the conversations for my district, as I’m building out a transition plan,” said Fernandes Anderson, in part, during the hearing.
A transition plan to a cell?
Fernandes Anderson, who represents Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway and part of the South End refused to resign when she was arrested back in December.
Big of her to go ahead and build a transition plan.
“I’ve been hearing since she was arrested that people had been feeling a lack of trust in government,” Councilor At-Large Erin Murphy explained. “The public is asking for elected officials to be more responsible and I do believe that we should be held to higher standards.”
Or you know at least the same standard as normal people.
Anderson, a BLM supporter who called the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7, a “military operation”, may now have the opportunity to plan her transition out of government.
