Walsh has paid $900K to a campaign consultant that employs his girlfriend | Boston.com

Walsh has paid $900K to a campaign consultant that employs his girlfriend | Boston.com


Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who has built a record-breaking campaign account since entering City Hall, has spent nearly $900,000 on a boutique fund-raising consulting firm that employs his longtime partner, accounting for more than half of the company’s political business since 2013.
The Walsh campaign’s payments to LB Strategies are growing in size and reached $13,500 a month last year. This is evidence, Walsh aides say, of the company’s expanding role in his political world. But the payments, and the ties to Walsh’s girlfriend, Lorrie Higgins, could create questionable political optics for the second-term mayor, analysts said.