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...THERE ARE THREE THINGS that make this country great: education, law 'n order and civil service...the liberal conspiracy has destroyed two of 'em and almost the third." Boston City Councilor Albert "Dapper" O'Neil was engaging in his favorite pastime, entertaining a reporter. Fellow City Councilor John Kerrigan added, "Capper will do anything for publicity, get a raincoat and flash." Kerrigan was flapping the labels of his leisure suit and making a long stroking gesture...
...pulled his ever present gun out of his belt and placed it at the man's head. Later he claimed it was only a pen. Boston Mayor Kevin White--whom O'Neil describes now as "...a mental case...He makes Jesse James look like an amateur"--once introduced the councilor to an audience as "The man who once again proved that the pen is mightier than the sword...
...Independents, Joseph L. Carson, has already withdrawn from active campaigning, and the second, Bernard N. Bane, isn't given much of a chance. But the third, City Councilor Saundra Graham, is waging a vigorous campaign and has a good shot at upsetting Toomey...
Next to his use of homelife as a political tool, the most important feature of Al's rhetorical grab-bag is his odd combination of humor and bombast. Once, when he was trying to deliver a speech on nothing in particular at the beginning of a council meeting, Councilor Al asked aloud if anyone was listening to what he was saying. (He hadn't been reelected mayor yet; everybody listens to the mayor). When there was no reply, Al moved that the meeting be adjourned. Since it was Monday night and there was a football game on TV starting...
...into topics as disparate as the leash law and the rising incidence of public dopesmoking. It was a sort of ad hominem filibuster, although in my assessment at the time it was a waste of time for everyone and a waste of effort on the part of a crackpot councilor. Al talked about Italian cooking, he talked about the deterioration of respect for the city council, but mostly, it seemed, he just talked. I left that meeting discouraged and disappointed that one man could act so badly in public while nobody bothered so much as to ask him to yield...