Boston City Councilors Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George topped the five-person race in Tuesday’s preliminary runoff.
Michelle Wu led with 33 percent of the runoff vote. For the past 200 years, the office has been held exclusively by white men.
Wu’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan. Essaibi George describes herself as a first generation Arab Polish-American. “I am so grateful to you showing up not just tonight but showing up for the last eight months,” she told supporters. Essaibi George won a series of key endorsements during the race including from unions representing firefighters, nurses and emergency medical technicians. She also won the backing of former Boston Police Commissioner William Gross.
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