Word: bellotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those accustomed to Massachusetts politicians, the decision of this dovish David to challenge the presidential Goliath seems a strange one indeed. He lacks the jaunty grin of an Edward M. Kennedy; he does not pound the table with his first like a Francis X. Bellotti; and his throat does not issue the pious platitudes of a John A. Volpe...
...this is what John A. Volpe, Edward J. McCormack, Elliot L. Richardson '41, and Francis J. Bellotti have been thinking about for months. For anyone of them a loss tomorrow could well mean political oblivion...
Richardson had originally planned on running for re-election with an eye towards 1970's gubernatorial election. But Francis X. Bellotti, Democratic lieutenant-governor from 1962-64 and a busy suburban Boston lawyer, decided this spring to run for attorney general hoping to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee...
...defeating Bellotti this year, Richardson apparently reasoned that he could effectively remove Bellotti from the political scene. He also knew that the 1970 election might become a contest between the public images of the lieutenant governor's office (chief supermarket opener) and the attorney general's office (the learned crime buster). In any case, Richardson decided to run for attorney general this year...
...intensity of the campaign between Bellotti and Richardson reflects their knowledge that defeat would be tantamount to oblivion. For weeks they have engaged in charges and countercharges in daily newspaper advertisements. Last week in a furor over a supposed conflict of interest dating back to Bellotti's days as lieutenant governor, Richardson charged that Bellotti was "morally insensitive" while Bellotti claimed that Richardson was an "immoral candidate." It is virtually the only contest in which the candidates have recognized each other's existence...