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Today, the election offerings are longtime state politician Francis X. Bellotti and Boston University President John R. Silber. Our reluctant choice is Bellotti--simply because we cannot stomach the thought of the dictatorial Silber ruling Massachusetts as he dominated...
...COMPARISON to Silber, Frank Bellotti is just another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty...
...interview, Bellotti complained about the media coverage of the campaign, criticizing reporters for not letting substance become a part of the race...
...another questioner did not receive the answer he wanted to hear. Tom Reeves, a professor of political science at Roxbury Community College, walked away shaking his head after arguing with Bellotti over the candidate's support for the death penalty...
Murphy is now running for Governor, a job that the increasingly unpopular Dukakis is not trying to hold on to. But Murphy, an unimaginative campaigner who repeats liberal cliches with square-jawed earnestness, is badly trailing her Democratic primary opponents: former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti and Boston University President John Silber. Aides have long advised her to wake up voters by breaking with Dukakis...