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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...
...House, and there are several candidates, most notably Boston's Mayor Collins, who are already in the running for 1966. Senator Kennedy, who belatedly came out for Club, is not known to be overjoyed at the results and will probably do nothing to stop any serious attempt to humble Bellotti later on. Party harmony, though, has been assured at least through this Tuesday. Peabody has agreed to be cooperative about his lame-duck appointments, Bellotti has agreed to be cooperative when Peabody tries to appoint his staff to various judgeships, and Joe Gargan, Kennedy's cousin, has been named Bellotti...
...lowest common denominator. The present Auditor Theodore Buzcko, was appointed to his post after the death of his predecessor just before the primary because he was a Pole (there hadn't been any Polish constitutional officers for a while) and because he was friendly with both the Kennedy and Bellotti camps, and important asset in the strained atmosphere immediately following the primary. Buzcko himself, though a charming and ambitious man, knows practically nothing of accounting, and it is not difficult to speculate about his probable conduct in office...