Word: democratics
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Vellucci's political career dates back to his 21st birthday, when he ran as an independent Democrat against a slate for the Democratic City Committee. He knocked an incumbent off the slate and won a seat, which entitled him to be a delegate to that year's Democratic State Convention. There followed a long gap in his political career, which reopened in 1950 with his election to the Cambridge School Committee. He served on the Committee four years and then ran for the City Council, where he has served for 16 years. The nine-man Council elects a mayor from...
...York, most non-Republicans cast their votes for both Charles E. Goodell, the liberal Republican incumbent whom Agnew had blasted as "the Christene Jorgenson" of the party, and Democrat Rep. Richard L. Ottinger. Conservative James L. Buckley, who was supported by the Administration, won with only 38 per cent of the vote...
Connecticut's traditional Democratic vote was split between that party's peace candidate, Rev. Joseph Duffey, and Thomas Dodd, the Democrat incumbent running as an Independent. Republican Rep. Lowell P. Weiker won with 41 per cent of the vote...
Final returns yesterday afternoon left Studds, a Democrat, 1600 votes behind his Republican opponent, Rep. Hastings Keith. The vote count was 100,519 for Keith against 98,798 for Studds...
...Tenth District, Bertram Yaffe, an antiwar Democrat, met an expected defeat at the hands of two-term Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler. After seesawing in the returns all night, Yaffe conceded at 8 a. m. yesterday, urging his supporters to continue working for peace candidates...