Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kevin Crane '73, heir to the Edward Crane '37 political legend, ran just well enough across the city to insure his return to the council. He may not be building a constituency, but there are just enough voters in the city who recognize his name...
...Like Crane, Leonard Russell, who has run for council seven times (twice successfully) had just enough friends. It isn't his moderate stand on the issues that wins Russell most of his support. Instead, voters chose him because he's friendly, well-kown, and has lots of connections when it comes to finding city jobs for his backers...
Both those trends could boost the more conservative independent candidates--incumbents Thomas W. Danehy (Mayor), Kevin P. Crane, Lawrence A. Frisoli and Walter J. Sullivan and strong challengers Leonard Russell, Daniel Clinton and Richard Bentubo...
Among the old-line independents, the possibility of upset exists. Walter Sullivan will breeze into office, probably at the head of the field, but Mayor Danehy, Frisoli, and Crane all face fights. Two former councilors upset in the 1977 elections. Daniel Clinton and Leonard Russell, have outspent the incumbents ("People in office are less willing to hit up their supporters for dough" theorizes one city politician), and are trying to rebuild the coalitions that elected them in the past. Danehy didn't pay his taxes on time two years ago, a revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli...
Only a few councilors, including Walter J. Sullivan and Kevin Crane '72 are loathe to vote against bills limiting Harvard's incursion on the rest of the city...