(Submitted by my niece Sarah [High Praise!])
BOSTON – When Marty Walsh won the Boston mayor’s race, Vice President Joe Biden was quick to pick up the phone to congratulate him.
The only problem was, the Marty Walsh on the other end of the phone wasn’t the Marty Walsh set to succeed longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
The Marty Walsh who Biden had connected with was actually a former aide to the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.
That Marty Walsh said before he could explain the mix-up, Biden launched into his congratulations, saying “Marty, you did it, you son of gun.”
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Walsh, who said he has received misplaced calls for the other Marty Walsh in the past, said he quickly set Biden straight and passed along the cellphone number for the mayor-elect.
Walsh said Biden then jokingly congratulated him for not being mayor.
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Sarah adds:
You would think being VP would make him privy to the updated contact lists. Or his secretary is a sadist, oh so innocently letting him be a super-fool. Someone should get him a cape.
Good thing the guy’s name wasn’t John Smith. Biden might have been on the phone for months.
Hey, maybe that’s not such a bad idea. Know any John Smiths running for anything?
Biden: “Oh, well, if you’ve seen one Marty Walsh, you’ve seen ’em all.”