Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucel's resolution passed the Council by a vote of 7-0, with Councilor David E. Sullivan abstaining. Sullivan declined to comment on his refusal to support the measure...
After the Prime Minister had arrived. Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci decided to send Fraser a present, and he sent a messenger over with the package. Quite unintentionally, the Wadsworth office forgot the gift was coming, so that when the gift-bearer arrived holdings a non-descript package and asked to see Fraser, the secret service men hired for the Prime Minister jumped at the innocent deliveryman and tore open the package before it reached the head of state...
...were over, none of the candidates had said anything brilliant or gave any sign of being set to "break from the pack," as one candidate aptly put it. The most constructive input came from two candidates who clarified once and for all that they will not do so. City Councilor Frederick C. Langone, a crusty old codger who specializes in down-home wisdom and speaks to everybody as if he were their grandfather, clinched the James Watt Hole-in-the-Foot award by telling one of the students in the audience to "come back to me after you've survived...
...serious candidates--of whom former School Committee President David I. Finnegan and City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn are considered favorites--offered even less excitement. Former State Representative Melvin H. King reached out to gays, women, the poor, and Blacks--whom he termed the "niggers" of Boston. Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney called for opening the door to City Hall and banishing crime from the streets, presumably enhancing his good-guy image, Flynn copped an FDR line, offering the observation that the role of government is to help those who can't help themselves--which prompted one member...
...eight candidates present were former Boston City Councilor Lawrence S Dicara '71, former School Committee President David I Finnegan, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk Country Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H King, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H. King, Boston City Councilor Frederick Langone, and Socialist Workers' Party candidate Eloise Langer...