Wu, Michelle, 1985-

<p>Michelle Wu is the Mayor of Boston. She is a daughter of immigrants, Boston Public Schools mom to two boys, MBTA commuter, and fierce believer that we can solve our deepest challenges through building community. As Mayor, Michelle is working in coalition to deliver bold, systemic change and make Boston a city for everyone.</p>

<p>Mayor Wu has been a voice for accessibility, transparency, and community engagement in city leadership. First elected to the Boston City Council in November 2013 at the age of 28, Wu is the first Asian-American woman to serve on the Council. In January 2016, she was elected President of the City Council by her colleagues in a unanimous vote, becoming the first woman of color to serve as Council President.</p>

<p>As a Councilor, Mayor Wu was the lead sponsor of Boston's Paid Parental Leave ordinance and Healthcare Equity ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity — both of which passed unanimously through the Council and were signed into law by former Mayor Martin J. Walsh. She also authored Boston’s Communications Access ordinance, which guarantees translation, interpretation and assistive technology for access to City services regardless of English language proficiency or communications disability.</p>

<p>Michelle Wu (Chinese: 吳弭; born January 14, 1985) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the mayor of Boston. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she was the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council. She was first elected to the council in 2013 and served from 2014 to 2021, including a stint as council president from 2016 to 2018. Wu was a candidate in the 2021 Boston mayoral election and won with 63.94% of the vote, becoming the first woman, first person of color, and first Asian American elected to serve as Boston's mayor.</p>

<p>Wu is considered a political progressive and a protégée of Elizabeth Warren. Warren was one of Wu's professors in law school, and Wu later worked on Warren's 2012 United States Senate campaign.</p>

<p>On the Boston City Council, Wu has authored a number of ordinances that have been enacted: preventing the city from contracting with health insurers that discriminate in their coverage against transgender individuals, protecting wetlands and supporting adaption to climate change, enacting a plastic bag ban, adopting Community Choice Aggregation, and providing for paid parental leave to municipal employees. She also pushed for a successful effort to put in place regulations on short-term rentals.</p>

<p>Wu has argued for reforming the city's permitting and zoning system, including abolishing the Boston Planning & Development Agency, which she argues is overly politicized and lacks transparency. She has also advocated fare-free public transportation and a municipal "Green New Deal" for Boston. Wu has spoken in favor of "demilitarizing" the Boston Police Department, and establishing an unarmed community safety crisis response system that would assume responsibility for nonviolent 9-1-1 calls.</p>

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li>11/02/2021 Boston Mayor Won 63.96% (+28.34%)</li>
<li>09/14/2021 Boston Mayor - Primary Won 33.40% (+10.92%)</li>
<li>11/05/2019 Boston City Councillor - At-Large Won 20.73% (+3.76%)</li>
<li>09/24/2019 Boston City Councillor - At-Large - Primary Won 19.41% (+0.00%)</li>
<li>11/07/2017 Boston City Councillor - At-Large Won 24.46% (+2.79%)</li>
<li>11/03/2015 Boston City Councillor - At-Large Won 22.02% (-2.19%)</li>
<li>11/05/2013 Boston City Councillor - At-Large Won 17.98% (+0.00%)</li>
<li>09/24/2013 Boston City Councillor - At-Large - Primary Won 11.48% (-4.11%)</li>
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<p><b>SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN</b>
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<li>01/03/2019 Boston City Councillor - At-Large - Succession Won 0.00% (+0.00%)</li>
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