Turner loses education committee chairmanship

Over 100 letters and calls poured into the office of Council President Michael Flaherty in recent weeks, urging him to re-appoint his colleague Chuck Turner as Education Committee chairman.

But Flaherty was unmoved. As he has done the past two years, the president offered other councilors the position ahead of the outspoken Roxbury-based councilor.

This year, it was Flaherty supporter John Tobin getting the nod and another Flaherty supporter, Maureen Feeney, getting the vice-chairwoman position.

Turner cried foul at the changes, which he said had political motivations.

"To me, the reason he put two white people in positions of leadership on the Education …