When Michael Flaherty ran against Menino in 2009, he won 42 percent of the vote, doing better than any challenger since Menino first took office back in 1993. After conceding defeat, Flaherty, a former assistant district attorney who grew up in South Boston, quietly practiced law. When he tried to regain his Michael Kors Outlet Online council seat in 2011, the Menino machine, according to Coach Purses On Clearance a Globe report, a citywide effort to stop him.