billy bulger's boston, my boston.en occupied by white guys from south boston and the political world thought it would always be even though there are more voters in dorchester. last night, the boston globe called the primary election for billy's seat for the white guy, once again. but linda from my neighborhood in dorchester refused to concede. instead, she gave a victory speech in english and haitian creole. today, with all the votes counted, the winner in the race for what was once billy bulger's seat in the massachusetts senate is the dorchester daughter of haitian immigrants. she will be the only black member of the massachusetts senate. and she'll be my next guest. it's not my boston anymore. that is a very very good thing. i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. i'm really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. yeah? then how'd i get

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color elected to this seat, and when i was living there, that senate seat was occupied by senator billy bulgerer was the murderous gangster, is the murderous gangster, whitey bulger. all politics is local. joining me, ana marie cox. i want to get the local stuff out of the way, you probably don't have the numbers on that. >> i can't even pronounce it correctly. >> i am telling you, incredible night there. >> okay. >> big surprise, ed markey won. >> yes. everyone is shocked. the sun will also rise in the east tomorrow, i understand there are a lot of people in massachusetts waiting for that to happen. i have to say you're right, this is probably going to be a walk for markey, but i am entertained by his opponent who has a great story, was a navy s.e.a.l., you know, he is a latino, he is actually sort of in the rubio camp for immigration reform, all of this wonderful stuff. also apparently kind of a democrat, so it will be an interesting race to the left. he wrote a letter -- go ahead. >> didn't gabriel gomez support president obama at some point? >> he did. in 2008 he donated to obama's campaig

i would throw billy bulger his brother in there, too. t how bad jimmy bulger was. he never pushed him away. he was always a welcome member of that family. there were people who to this day would tell you that he, whitey made it a better place but the reality is whitey murdered people. whitey made money off drugs that ruined a town. >> put the culture of fear in place. >> when i was there in the '80s there was a lot of intimidation. >> i want to talk to you about an interesting pair dogs. you write in the book whitey bulger is someone who could go to sleep fine at night after killing somebody but couldn't bear to see a sick dog put down. >> right. >> which is an interesting part of who he is as a person. what do you feel about your reporting on him and getting that type of access that you were able to produce a sentence like that? how has that reporting changed you over the years personally? this guy was sort of, i mean i don't know if you're married or have kids but this guy was pretty much your life for 20 something years. >> professiona