Word: carres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr blamed the problem in state government on a group of unscrupulous politicians who use public office for their own personal financial gain. He began his talk with an attack on Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whom he regularly calls...
...Mike Dukakis has become everything he ran against in the early days," Carr said...
Globe columnist Bob Turner questioned the "hack labels" that he said Carr and other anti-Dukakis activists liked to employ...
Claiming that Carr needed to give reasons for his dismissals of "hack" politicians, Turner said that the public perception of public service would "continue to be hurt until people stand up against empty charges...
...Carr struck back at Turner, calling him a "bum kisser." He said that Turner and his Boston Globe colleagues are Dukakis apologists whom the Herald cannot "out-liberal...