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Personal background: Bellotti was born in Boston. He graduated from Tufts University in 1947 and Boston College Law School in 1952. Bellotti served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He began practicing law in 1952. He lives in Quincy with his wife, Maggie. They have 12 children...
Work and political experience: Bellotti won his first bid for public office in 1962, when he was elected lieutenant governor. Two years later, he challenged the incumbent Democratic Gov. Endicott Peabody, defeating him in the 1964 primary but losing the general election to Republican John Volpe. He lost a race for attorney general in 1966 and another bid for governor in 1970. He won the 1975 attorney general's race and served in that office until 1987. He now works as a partner with the Boston law firm of Gaston & Snow. He is the Democratic party's endorsed candidate...
...bureaucracy in general and the fiscally disastrous administration of Michael Dukakis in particular. He capped his uphill fight by narrowly corralling the necessary 15% of delegates at a chaotic Democratic state convention. For that feat, Silber drew at least as much attention as former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti got for finishing first...
...Bellotti and lieutenant governor Evelyn Murphy, the third surviving candidate, will train their guns on Silber, whom they fear for his brains, bile and ability to dominate the news. Says pollster Gerry Chervinsky: "If he gets going on substance, Silber is going to win." He would be a formidable general-election candidate whose stern morality could draw Reagan Democrats back to the party and attract liberal Republicans...
Silber has come this far by saying whatever is on his mind. He bills himself as the ultimate political outsider at a time when insiders are as popular as cockroaches. The state is in a fiscal mess because of people like Bellotti and Murphy, he argues, and it needs him to slash about $1 billion in fat, reform the education system, create prison schools at abandoned military bases and add 12 cents per gal. to the state gasoline tax to trigger new jobs through business activity and tourism...