BOSTON – An at times emotional Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told well-wishers gathered at the city’s historic Faneuil Hall on Thursday that he won’t seek re-election to an unprecedented sixth term after nearly two decades in office.
“I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love, that I will leave the job that I love,” Menino said, with his wife Angela and family by his side. “I can run, I can win and I can lead, but not in the neighborhoods all the time as I like.”
Menino, who used a cane to walk to the podium, has had persistent health problems including a six-week hospital stay last year to treat a respiratory infection and a compression fracture in his spine. Menino also was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
But the city’s longest serving mayor told the crowd that he is on the mend. Still, he said, it’s not enough to keep the pace that has become his trademark.
“I’m back to a mayor’s schedule, but not a Menino schedule,” he said.![]()
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