Word: bellotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory this September of Lieutanant-Governor Francis X. Bellotti over incumbent Governor Chub Peabody for the primary nomination was an especially significant upheavel. Peabody, after a political career comprised primarily of defeats, squeaked into office in 1962 and proved to be an amazingly effective--and progressive--Governor...
...Unlike Bellotti, however, he had no feel for the ethnic interests and managed to bungle the business whenever it came up. His wife Toni antagonized the Irish when she criticized the Capital washerwomen, and he mortified the Puritans among the Yankees when he embraced the now indicated "Iron Duke of Ludlow," House Speaker Thompson, only shortly after calling for his removal. He allowed former Senate President John E. Powers, a good Irish Catholic, to make a statement on his behalf that accused Bellotti of trying to take over the party, a statement that only infuriated the Italians and appalled...
...Bellotti himself had balanced rather neatly between competing factions in the years of his rise to power first as a manager for the disreputable Joe Ward in 1960, then steering a pretty neutral course in 1962 between Kennedy and McCormack, and finally gathering together all the losers in the past several elections in his own bid for the gubernatorial nomination. He assiduously avoided being connected with any particular issue or cause, especially capital punishment, which had turned out to be a Peabody albatross...
Many people at the rally waved "Hello LBJ" pennants and Bellotti-for-Governor posters. A few Goldwater signs were seen, and four placards protested the proposed closing of the Watertown Arsenal
...official statement came in response to a telegram sent Monday to Volpe and his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, by Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot, co-chairmen of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive. The message reminded the candidates of the great expense involved in constructing the underpasses and of the irreplaceable recreation playgrounds their construction would destroy. It also urged that they support legislation to block their construction...