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Harvard’s Republicans today are much like the hippies of the ’60s: both love to see themselves as provocateurs of convention, and both revel in the coolness of their dissent. They disperse in a righteous flurry of t-shirt making, protests, and campaigning, all with...
In order to appear on the primary ballot, a candidate must receive the backing of 15 percent of the nearly 5,400 delegates at the June convention. A candidate who is backed by the majority of the delegates also receives the endorsement of the state party committee.
Brian P. Murphy ’86, a Cambridge city councillor who will also be a convention delegate, spoke of the need for a Democratic governor after 16 years of Republican rule, drawing on his experiences in the State House under both Democratic and Republican administrations as evidence.
Pro-Patrick activists will outnumber Reilly supporters by a two-to-one margin among committed delegates at the June convention, according to the Boston Globe. An African-American who served in the Clinton Justice Department as the nation’s top civil rights enforcement official, Patrick has rallied caucus...
Vorenberg, the former master of Dunster House and wife of the late James Vorenberg ’48, the former dean of the Law School, told The Crimson that Patrick, who lived in Dunster during his years at the College, inspired her to run as a delegate to the state...