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(171,070 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:32 PM Dec 2014

President Obama just called in to Boston Public Radio

Such a rebel...

President Obama just called in to Boston Public Radio
Updated by Andrew Prokop on December 18, 2014, 1:40 p.m. ET

Listeners to Boston Public Radio got a bit of a surprise early Thursday afternoon, when President Obama placed an unannounced call to the network while outgoing Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) was in the studio:

BRAUDE: "Hello, sir. Yes, you're on with Gov. Deval Patrick."

OBAMA: "Uh, Governor, this is Barack Obama, formerly of Somerville. I've got a few complaints about service in and around the neighborhood, but I've moved down south since that time..."

Obama goes on to talk about how great he thinks Patrick is for most of the three-minute segment. But before the president hung up, host Jim Braude went for the jugular, quizzing Obama on his decades of disrespect for the law:

BRAUDE: "Mr. President, you paid all those parking tickets in Somerville, correct?"

OBAMA: "You know what, I think I had to before I took office, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to step into the Commonwealth without being arrested."

Back in 2007, it was revealed that Obama had been given 17 parking tickets in Cambridge and Somerville between 1988 and 1991, but only bothered to pay off two of them during that period. As the president says, the remaining $115 in fines and $260 in late fees were finally paid off on January 26, 2007 — just two weeks before he officially began his first presidential campaign. You can listen to the full audio of Obama's call at WGBH, or @ link~

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/18/7416681/obama-wgbh

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President Obama just called in to Boston Public Radio (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2014 OP

I like him even better now that I know about those parking tickets Warpy Dec 2014 #1

Warpy

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1. I like him even better now that I know about those parking tickets

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Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:43 PM

Dec 2014

The greater Boston area, including Cambridge and Somerville, is hostile to cars. I didn't bother having one until I had off street parking. All parking is restricted to time, to day, to day of week, to side of road when it snows, and other things that have you go out at 3 AM when the winds are gale force and it's barely above zero to find a parking place that will be legal after 6 AM. Collecting parking tickets is almost a hobby there.

Brookline was the town in the area that was rabid about collecting their tickets.

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