Welle can’t decide which lie to tell, or which voters to tell it to

Depending on what he thinks you want to hear, Josh Welle will either tell you:

1. He’s a pragmatic centrist trying to get things done, or

2. He’s a progressive activist trying to “move this district forward.”

Whatever the truth is (if there even is one), Welle apparently doesn’t have the integrity to stick to it.

In February, Welle called himself “a centrist at heart” in an interview.

By March, he was telling any Democrat who would listen that he “is going to advance the most critical progressive values of the day” and that he “shares the same progressive convictions” as undisputed progressive activist Jim Keady.

In June, Welle was back to “self-described centrist Democrat” in The Hill.

Last month, Welle was on Facebook telling everybody how him being a political “moderate” is the new “hotness” (whatever that means).

And then, just around two weeks ago in Shrewsbury, Welle was telling Democrats about his “deep progressive convictions.”

He can’t be both a raging progressive activist and a harmless centrist depending upon the day of the week/his audience.

How are we supposed to believe a word he says about politics, if he can’t even decide on his own ideology?

The simple fact is that whether you’re a liberal, a moderate, or a Republican, Welle is telling you what he thinks you want to hear. Because Josh Welle’s only ACTUAL political conviction is that he deserves to hold power, and obviously he’s willing to say absolutely anything to anybody in order to get it.

Welle’s “integrity” extends exactly as far as his ambition allows, and no further. Elected office is the very last place we need a man like that.

— Joseph Sullivan, Jackson