Word: antonellis
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...anxieties of winning the primary. Many good men fell by the wayside in the plethora of close intraparty races, and now all the pomp and excitement seems to zero in on Brooke vs. Tsongas, King vs. Hatch, Bellotti vs. Weld, where it once pondered Droney vs. Harshbarger, Twomey vs. Antonelli, and Shannon vs. the World...
...Rocco Antonelli is the Democratic candidate. Antonelli scored a big victory in the primary by defeating pre-primary favorite John Twomey and five other aspirants by a scant 4000 votes. The victory was the result of Antonelli's being--you guessed it--first on the ballot due to the departure of aging James Brennan as county treasurer, and also the fact that Antonelli was the only Certified Public Accountant in the entire field of budget watchers...
...voting for Antonelli, mainly because his newpaper ads have been nothing short of hilarious (a white on black hour glass with "Time for Antonelli" written in it). Seriously, either candidate would make a fine treasurer...
Elsewhere in the department the suspension is a touchy subject. Antonelli is in the hospital and could not be reached for comment this week, but Thomas McDonough, head of the unit where Antonelli and Vellucci worked, stresses that he does not want the department's investigation to become an electoral football. "Whatever we have done--and that includes disciplinary action--has been in the best interests of the Tax Department. It's a dead issue," he says...
...Vellucci keeps campaigning, confident that he has put the Globe story, the furor over his past, and even the fact of Antonelli's suspension, behind him. Shrewdly generating the confident image, he greets reporters with left hand extended--"bursitis, shaking too many hands with the other one" has claimed his right arm, he says. Predicting "a bigger vote than last time, for sure," he dismisses newspaper reports of his impending political death as greatly exaggerated. "The newspapers know nothing about politics. This is street politics, and they don't teach that at the School of Government at Harvard," he boasts...