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Walsh St. Pat’s video plays off Baker ‘bromance’

Walsh St. Pat’s video plays off Baker ‘bromance’

Kara Bettis

BOSTON – Despite their political differences, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh have worked closely together on a number of successful projects, such as convincing industrial giant General Electric to relocate to the city. But they've also been teased about their camaraderie – to the point of media references to a "bromance" between them.

Picking up on that theme, Kris Carter, the co-chair of the mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the creator of dozens of videos for the city's YouTube.com channel, produced one that spoofs the two leaders' delicate but friendly relationship, transforming British artist Adele's song "Hello" to "Hello Gov, it's Marty." He apparently had the mayor's full cooperation in making the video, which was shown during the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Breakfast at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Sunday.

NH steps up probe of voter fraud prompted by videos
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NH steps up probe of voter fraud prompted by videos

Evan Lips

CONCORD, N.H. – A funny thing happened Thursday to James O'Keefe as he was delivering Gov. Maggie Hassan a hard drive's worth of raw video that the undercover videographer says shows that conditions were ripe for rampant voter fraud during the Granite State primary season – he was served with a criminal subpoena demanding the surrender of the same material to the state.

"A better use of taxpayer dollars would be to investigate the people we actually exposed on video instead of the journalists who uncovered the truth about how easy it is to break election laws," O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas specializes in impersonation and hidden-camera reporting, said in a statement.

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