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Experience: Harshbarger has served as District Attorney since 1982, winning a second term in 1986. Previously, he worked from 1975 to 1978 as chief of the public protection bureau in Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti's office. He then served as deputy chief for the Council of Massachusetts Defenders, and later as first general counsel on the State Ethics Committee...
SOON after their endorsed gubernatorial candidate, Francis X. Bellotti, lost the Democratic primary to John R. Silber, club representatives decided not to endorse Silber in the general election. One member called him "a jerk...
...Thus they were primed for the term-limit referendum, billed by its backers as "a citizens' revolt against professional politicians." In Massachusetts the economy had imploded, along with Governor Michael Dukakis' standing. Public anger escalated along with the deficit. When Dukakis chose to retire, party regulars turned to Francis Bellotti, 67, a swaybacked former attorney general burdened with a liberal business-as-usual image...
Being a non-politician has been helpful to many candidates, and William Weld, the pluperfect blueblood who won the Republican primary to oppose Silber in November, also played that card. His opponent, Steven Pierce, the house minority leader, matched Bellotti's shopworn look. The record turnout of Bay State voters demonstrated the public's tendency to turn on state officials with more wrath than it shows to members of Congress in troubled times. The culpability of federal lawmakers is more easily hidden. That explains why, in addition to Dukakis, nine other Governors are voluntarily retiring this year...
...Party Support--Of weightier import to the Silber camp, however, is the dearth of support their candidate will likely receive from Bellotti supporters, 75 percent of whom said they would rather abandon their party than cast a vote for Silber...