Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft makes modifications to workforce – NBC Boston

Simply days earlier than Boston’s preliminary election, mayoral candidate Josh Kraft confirmed a shakeup to his marketing campaign.

The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that Will Keyser and Eileen O’Connor, a married couple who’ve served as high advisers to Kraft via their firm, Keyser Public Methods, have been not on his employees. The Kraft marketing campaign confirmed the departures in an announcement to NBC10 Boston.

“Josh is grateful for the skilled management and help that Will and Eileen have offered to information the marketing campaign,” a marketing campaign spokesperson wrote. “Earlier this week, a mutual determination was made to half methods based mostly on strategic variations because the marketing campaign narrows to 2 candidates. Josh appears ahead to reaching each Bostonian together with his imaginative and prescient for find out how to deliver higher housing and extra alternative to the town.”

Information of the shakeup got here after Kraft and incumbent Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took half in “The Ultimate Phrase,” a discussion board hosted Wednesday by NBC10 Boston and Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra, in partnership with Embrace Boston and the Black Financial Council of Massachusetts.

Voters will head to the polls Tuesday for the preliminary election, which can lower the sector down to 2 candidates for November’s common election.

It was not clear when the transfer was made. The Globe famous that O’Connor had fielded reporter questions for Kraft as not too long ago as Monday.

Keyser and O’Connor advised the Globe they have been grateful to work with Kraft, whom they “deeply respect and admire” for his work in neighborhood service.

Keyser beforehand suggested former Gov. Charlie Baker, and that the couple’s agency had not too long ago accomplished work for Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka, in response to the newspaper.