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...shaped up with its own potential to make or break the political career of a homegrown pol. Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston’s Back Bay, faces a tough challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker...
Similarly, the district for which Decker and Demakis struggle—newly redrawn—is about evenly split by the Charles River. It contains Boston’s tony Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods but 45 percent of the district falls in Cambridge’s more blue collar areas...
...Demakis-Decker race, the local names have gone beyond the political. Decker, who is young, progressive and well-funded, recruited the support of hometown boys turned movie stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Damon recorded an answering machine message pitching her candidacy and Affleck endorsed her in campaign literature...
...Decker says she hopes to work on issues of what she calls “social health” in the state—improving health care and education and lessening income inequality in Massachusetts...
...union has enlisted the help of Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who denounced Loews’ actions “unconscionable” and joined in one of their Friday night protests in the Square. Decker has also successfully moved to have the City Council investigate the legality of the lockout...