Word: bachrach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precedent for Independent candidates in this district is a strong one. Departing State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), for example, won the seat in 1980 as an Independent...
...Democrat Michael J. Barrett '70, said that "I first met Saundra Graham when she stepped on stage and provided local interest for my parents." Since then, he has been her colleague in the State House of Representatives, and is now the heavily favored candidate to succeed State Sen. George Bachrach in representing a district adjacent to his classmate...
This year, Barrett seems to have come out on top of a similar "trickledown opportunity." State Sen. George Bachrach forfeited reelection to run for Congress, losing to Joseph P. Kennedy II in the September 16 Democratic primary. He left his Senate seat open to an intense fiveway race among Democrats, of whome two--Olivia Golden '76 and Barrett--held liberal views similar...
Political consultant Michael Goldman, who advised moderate Democrat David Holway in the primary, said Barrett won because the vote was split among five strong candidates. He also said that liberals who had supported Bachrach as a popular State Senator wanted to choose a politically similar successor for him--but that Kennedy had a prior claim on their vote for Congress...
...incumbent in 1980 was Francis X. McCann, a traditional Democrat who had run unopposed for many seasons. In the primary election that year, he defeated Democrat Wendy Abt, whose Republican husband, Clark C. Abt, is now running for Congress against Joseph P. Kennedy II. Bachrach defeated the incumbent as an Independent in the general election...