Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter gave Timilty the chance to be a star when he named him chairman of the National Commission on Neighborhoods. But Timilty failed miserably. The Commission made no concrete recommendations, and Timilty drove away half of the Commission's members in the process. He has spent most of the campaign accusing White of mismanagement, neglecting to present his own coherent vision. If Boston is going to have a less-than-perfect mayor for the next four years, it might as well be the one who's proven he can run the city...
Smooth as the process seems on the outside, there have been a few internal struggles for the CCA this year--some members of a rival liberal group, CPPAX, felt they were being left out of the endorsement and campaign process. As a result, "some of us haven't given as much time as we might have to the campaign," one disgruntled CPPAX member proclaimed...
Addressing only tenant issues, the equally liberal Rent Control Task Force endorsed a slate of candidates but raised only $100 through October 20 for its campaign...
...Walter Sullivan for example has a network of buddies and relatives built up since he broke into the major leagues more than two decades ago--he doesn't need the CHT card file to help his effort. It's a little hard to gauge the strength of the CHT campaign effort--the group as of Friday hadn't filed the campaign finance report due a week earlier. Group president Richard Fraiman says the final tally will be somewhere in the several thousands of dollars. And although Cambridge political folk wisdom conventionally holds that there are more tenants than landlords, hence...
Kevin White admits that after 12 years the voters are looking for an alternative. But he has staked his campaign on the belief that Joe Timilty is not the man they're looking for. In fact, over the last eight years, none of the alternatives--Louise Day Hicks, David Finnegan, Mel King or Timilty--has drawn enough balanced support to unseat the mayor...