Ricardo Arroyo for Boston City Council on The Young Jurks, 1/5/2019.
https://midnightmass.substack.com/p/ricardo-arroyo-for-boston-city-council
Ricardo Arroyo, candidate for Boston City Council in District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roslindale), is the son of the first Latino elected to the Council, Felix D. Arroyo and brother of Felix G. Arroyo, who has also served on the very same Council.
Interviewing Arroyo on my Disrupt Boston show, The Young Jurks, the 31 year old noted, “I come from a pretty great family.” and it goes beyond just the elected positions, his mother is a school teacher and his sister is employed as a Boston Public Schools educator. Another Arroyo brother, also came up in our discussion, Ernesto AKA Eroc, who I’ve known for decades, being a huge fan of his revolutionary hip hop, The Foundation Movement.
Arroyo until his recent campaign announcement, had been serving as a public defender attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
Unlike the incumbent Dis…
