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Speakers at the event included Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49, Loeb University Professor Emeritus Paul A. Freund, Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.), Pforzheimer University Professor Oscar Handlin, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...Democrats seem to believe that the election is not a mandate to reverse Reagan's policies completely, and do not plan to push for big spending programs this session. Noted Barney Frank of Massachusetts, one of Congress's most outspoken liberals, after beating Republican Margaret Heckler: "We are not asking the Federal Government to spend more money. We are asking that what is spent be spent with a better sense of equity...
EAST. One of the most expensive House races in the entire country pitted Incumbents Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat, and Margaret Heckler, a moderate Republican, against each other in a Massachusetts constituency drastically changed by redistricting. Frank once likened running in the district, 70% of whose voters had been represented by Heckler, to "acting out a speaking part in my own mugging." But he put together a highly effective organization that spent around $1.2 million and tirelessly denounced Heck ler's votes for Reagan's economic policies. Heckler wound up spending more than $600,000, but could...
Happily, some of the worst advertising failed or even boomeranged. Beard and Cost were both defeated. In Massachusetts, Republican Margaret Heckler lost her House race to Democrat Barney Frank in part because of her ads charging that Frank, while a state legislator, had favored prostitution and pornography; Frank in fact had voted for a bill to set up adult-entertainment zones where police could more easily monitor those activities. Half the voters questioned in exit polls conducted by station WBZ-TV called Heckler's ads objectionable...
After college and a year of political consulting, Vallely became "sick of giving advice" and in 1980 won the State Representative seat that Barney Frank '61 gave up in his bid for Congress. In his second year in the State House, where he worked on civil service reform, Vallely won the Rapport Scholarship, which pays for public servants to study at the K-School...