Word: dicara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DiCara was plainly not surprised that the Irish of South Boston have not turned out in force for him. "Any area where you have a real heavy like Moakley"--John Moakley, the congressman who lost to Louise Day Hicks last year, had led the ballotting all night in his first try for City Council--"you're not going to do very well. It's the same with the black areas. We could have rung every doorbell and we still wouldn't have done any better than we would have just by doing the subway stations. That's why you have...
...DiCara's strengths are these: he is young, he is Italian, he is a good public speaker, he has hundreds of contacts with the people he grew up with and the people in Boston politics, he went to Harvard. "A FRESH FACE IN A TIRED CROWD," his posters say. He has worked hard on this campaign, issuing more position papers than any other Council Candidate, thereby gaining the Globe's endorsement. He has called for changes in the city tax structure to end the advantages given to business at the expense of homeowners under the property...
...Harvard thing has been a plus straight down the line for us," Guenther explained. "Everyone says, 'Oh, yeah, he's the well-educated candidate." DiCara can pull it off because no one would ever think of him as a candidate from Harvard. The voters of Boston can recognize him on sight as one of them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tried for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association...
...have been running for office for years. It seems unlikely that any of them will stumble before November; no one in Boston is very happy with the City Council, but no one is very angry at it either, John Moakley, although not an incumbent, is practically a shoo-in. DiCara, with $1500 remaining in his campaign chest, must fight the other eleven for one of the two remaining spots on the ballot...
...didn't happen. Running right behind DiCara was John A. Lynch, a 25-year-old liberal who made his name as an organizer of the Little City Hall program. Lynch, a young lawyer, has made a name for himself as the young liberal on the ticket, and DiCara's people feel a little nervous about him. Lynch has the endorsement of the Citizens for Participation Politics, and the Massachusetts Legislative Council on Older Americans and DiCara--already endorsed by the Americans for Democratic Action--is angling to get both of these endorsements for the November election...