Thursday, January 31, 2013
Since the Newtown school tragedy, 14 Massachusetts mayors have joined the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hosted the Massachusetts delegation of the Mayor's Against Illegal Guns coalition today as they continued their push on Congress to enact national legislation that will decrease gun violence. “Earlier this week, I asked the City of Boston to stand with us on guns and say enough is enough,” said Menino at the Parkman House on Beacon Street. “As Mayors, we have a responsibility to our residents to do all we can to make our neighborhoods safer. Today, we’re calling on every community in Massachusetts to stand with us. We must keep the pressure on Congress to take swift action.” Menino praised the Massachusetts federal delegation for signing onto the Fix Guns Check Act, which would require background checks for …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Mayor Setti Warren will meet with Boston Mayor Tom Menino and the Massachusetts delegation of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren will head into Boston tomorrow and join more than a dozen Massachusetts mayors to discuss ways to move forward with gun reform. The meeting will include Massachusetts mayors who are a part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group co-chaired by Boston Mayor Tom Menino. According to a press release issued by Menino's office Wednesday, Thursday's meeting will feature discussion on how to "continue to pressure Congress to take action on common sense gun control." The mayors will talk over ways to mobilize constituents and build support for gun reform, the press release said. They will also film a PSA asking for plan to prevent gun violence. Warren is one of 26 Massachusetts mayors who have joined the Mayor's …
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Mayors Against Illegal Guns sends a letter outlining steps for President Obama and Congressional leaders to take.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren is among hundreds of mayors signing a letter that went to President Obama today, outlining an urgent gun control agenda they are asking him — and the U.S. Congress — to pursue. Here is the letter: Dear President Obama, On Friday, December 14th the entire nation watched as parents stood outside the Sandy Hook Elementary School and waited, desperately hoping to be reunited with their children. That moment will never end for the families of the 20 children and six adults who were murdered that day at the school. As mayors, we are charged with keeping our communities safe. But too many of us have sat with mothers and fathers of children killed with guns. Twenty-four children enrolled in public schools in your …
Adam Maleson
12:59 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I'd like to see Setti Warren take a stand against police brutality. Because there is at least one officer on the Newton Police Force who should rightly be called a member of the Newton Police Excessive Force. The mayor and the police of Newton are lucky that I have no prior history of broken bones or fractures in my right arm or wrist, because the officer who twisted my right arm excessively in … more ›