Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hicks stuck to her re-election slogan--performance counts"--throughout the race. One supporter proclaimed proudly on election night that Hicks had a 100 per cent attendance record in Congress. "The people in the 9th District can feel safe; they know they're represented," she said...
...voters in the 9th never found out just how Hicks represented them in Congress. The congresswoman rarely talked about the issues during the campaign, and her staff would mutter something about "performance counts" whenever reporters tried to pin down Hicks's platform...
...trail again, since politics are a family legacy. Her father, a judge and political boss in South Boston, told Louise on his deathbed "to take care of my people." Last week, it was Joe Moakley who knew how to take care of all the people in the 9th District including Louise Day Hicks...
...9TH DISTRICT Congressional race overshadowed the national election for supporters of John "Joe" Moakley as they converged by the hundreds at the Statler-Hilton Ballroom on election night. The McGovern debacle and those "other 49 states" were preempted for the evening as all televisions in the ballroom were tuned to local elections. Anticipating a long-sought victory, Moakley supporters left no room for defeatist sentiment at their gathering...
...Moakley victory would then give impetus to "the new politics" not only in the 9th, but in Congress as well. Coming from an Irish working class neighborhood and speaking a moderate-to-progressive dialect that also attracted upper-income groups, Moakley provided an essential link between the liberal coalition in Congress and the often-distant object of its programs, the American working man. Moakley thus put forth a program designed to "bring the people together" and his supporters' election night gathering was a convincing Phase I of the new 9th togetherness...