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Former Governor Michael S. Dukakis claimed about 60 percent of the vote and moved from his Kennedy School of Government post back to the Statehouse. Rep. Barney Frank '61, meanwhile, had a surprisingly easy time winning the reshaped Fourth Congressional District seat, besting Rep. Margaret Heckler by a three-to-two margin...
Mudslinging has become an issue in itself in the Massachusetts congressional race between Republican Margaret Heckler and Democrat Barney Frank, two incumbents who face each other as a result of redistricting. Among $220,000 worth of Heckler television commercials that hit the air this month is one charging that Frank "sponsored a bill to permit legalized prostitution . . . and voted to reduce the sentence for violent rape." The facts: as a state legislator, Frank sponsored a bill favored by police to allow cities to create "adult-entertainment zones," and in Congress he voted for a new criminal code for Washington...
COMBAT ZONE. At first, Margaret Heckler's campaign in the suburbs of Boston was so genteel it was virtually nonexistent. Republican Congresswoman Heckler, 51, whose eight terms make her the senior woman in Congress, ignored her opponent and ducked the press. But her Democratic foe, irrepressible Congressman Barney Frank, 42, is hard to high hat. The race for Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional District-one of six House contests in which redistricting has pitted incumbents against each other-has become both close and nasty. Heckler had an early edge, since 70% of the new district's population was drawn...
...Margaret Heckler, Republican candidate in the 4th Congressional District. Having established good constituent relations. Heckler has been drifting In the physics I' s and Science A-'20's of congressional seats for 16 years. Now she's been thrown into chem 20 with Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.)and has responded in stereotypical pre-med fashion. Her wild campaign and accusing Frank of favoring prostitution drug use, and desecration of the flag are in the grand tradition of beaker smashing and lab report stealing. You may laugh, but Heckler has pulled even in the polls...
...difficulty is not so much finding solutions, but persuading Congressmen, who benefit so handsomely, to change the present situation. "It is a lot easier to raise money from PACs than from other sources," observes PAC Critic Barney Frank, a Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. "You sit there, somebody hands you a check for $3,000, and you say 'Thank you.' " In the end, it is pressure from the voters that may limit the power of the PACs. Some lawmakers, like Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, detect rumblings of reform. Says he: "There is a growing sense that the system...