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...when it came to policy making. Walter Sullivan wasn't always a friend of the little person. The city councillor was almost invariably pro-business...
Sullivan told Cyr then that he was too idealistic but that he "would get over it." After Cyr joined the city council in 1990, Cyr asked Sullivan if he thought the new councillor had gotten over his idealism...
Sullivan gave city jobs to people who needed them. "The city was the employer of last resort," Cyr says. "It's old-fashioned patronage politics--you call up your city councillor and he gets...
...councillor's generosity knew few bounds. His son, city councillor Michael A. Sullivan, recalls that his father often opened his house to homeless people...
...were on opposite sides," says Thomas H.D. Mahoney, a retired MIT history professor who served with Sullivan on the council for 8 years, "but we never had a personal disagreement. He was a pleasant, courteous councillor...