BOSTON (AP) — Thomas Menino, whose folksy manner and verbal gaffes belied his shrewd political tactics and effective use of technology to govern as Boston's longest-serving mayor and one of its most beloved, died Thursday. Menino was first elected in 1993 and built a formidable political machine that ended decades of Irish domination of city politics, at least temporarily. At an interfaith service three days after the bombings, Menino, in a symbolic act of personal defiance, painfully pulled himself to his feet from his wheelchair to declare that no act of violence could break Boston's spirit. People trusted government because it heard them. Because they could talk to it. Because it kept its word. Menino was among the first U.S.