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State Senator Michael J. Barrett '70 (D. Middlesex and Suffolk) announced yesterday that he is "very close" to beginning a formal campaign for the 1994 Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts...
This declaration, in the wake of Cambridge City Councillor Alice K. Wolf's surprise Tuesday announcement that she would not seek re-election to the council, has left political observers speculating that Wolf will run for Barrett's senate seat...
...given that current Gov. William F. Weld '66, a Republican, lives three blocks from Barrett in the same North Cambridge neighborhood as Wolf, the announcement makes Cambridge a hotbed of political activity, with local elected officials playing leapfrog in a way that is without recent precedent...
...Barrett said his niece, Heather M. Leslie '96, will be running the Harvard wing of his campaign. In an interview yesterday, Barrett called for a return to grass-roots political activism and widespread volunteerism, and stressed the importance of Harvard students to his campaign...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...