Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place of 67-year-old State Rep. John J. Toomey of Cambridge, the fourth Middlesex district will be represented by City Councilor Saundra Graham...
...Councilor Francis H. Duehay used a parliamentary rule to postpone discussion of the proposal until next Monday's council meeting...
...only seriously contested race for state office is City Councilor Saundra Graham's battle against incumbent State Representative John J. Toomey. The 67-year-old Toomey, entrenched in the legislature since 1943, has been an undistinguished practitioner of old-style machine politics. Graham, however, has fought vigorously in the city council for rent control, and for the rights of the city's minorities. Graham has tried to gain a seat in the state legislature before, but this time she has a better-organized campaign and a steadily weakening opponent. Graham would serve well as a new voice for Cambridge...
...comic stories about Dapper are endless, but they tend to obscure the vicious side of the affable councilor. A Wallace supporter since 1968 (years before busing had won the Alabaman many Massachusetts votes), one political insider said O'Neil was with him "every time Wallace was in Boston." In the collection of country western singers and intellectual lightweights that formed the Wallace campaign, Dapper was only good for handshaking pictures for The South Boston Tribune. His advice was never solicited and his responsibilities were nonexistent...
...allies, O'Neil refuses to make deals or cooperate with the Mayor. "White can shove that patronage up his ass," he says bluntly. While Kerrigan and Council President Hicks have carefully built up their patronage machines and index card files, Dapper performs favors without collecting IOU's. When many Councilors spent over $40,000 in their re-election campaigns, Dapper limited his budget to $1800 and hired no employees. The media has an unofficial black-out on his many charges, but he is occasionally seen on television or heard on a radio talk-show--the councilor cultivates his grassroots support...