Word: dicara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more respectable winners in Boston all follow this pattern. Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, also swept into office with high hopes and clean garments a few years ago, quickly sold his innocence to the mayor and has played Hubert H. Humphrey to White's corrupt Lyndon B. Johnson. DiCara would like to be State Treasurer and he needs someone's help...
BOSTON'S NEW LEADERSHIP lacks any spark. DiCara and Sullivan have always stood out as promising leaders, not because of any great achievement of their own but because they contrasted so sharply with their less attractive colleagues. Now, without those three agitators, they will have to hold their own. To rise further politically, as both have said they plan to, the new breed will have to either cultivate a following of their own or trade their independence to the heavy-handed White administration. The latter possibility is an unlikely avenue for Connolly or Sullivan who both entertain mayoral ambitions...
Even politicians like Connolly and DiCara, who have not been directly harmed by the finance commission, dislike it on intellectual grounds because of what it represents. Appointed by the governor to staggered five year terms, the present members owe few favors to any Boston politician and are liable to investigate anyone. Opponents of the finance commission criticize it as outside interference from the state and a violation of the spirit of home-rule. Also, Boston is the only municipality in Massachusetts that has such a body...
...year 1978, while the next largest appropriation is Springfield's $28.4 million. Almost all of Suffolk County is made up of Boston, and the mayor and city council are the county officers. This consolidates two different organizations and thus brings the county district attorney closer to the city officals. DiCara claims a statewide Finance Commission would be more "just" to Boston...
...DiCara said, "It's rampant talk around town that Andrea Garguilo Wasserman, or whatever she calls herself these days, will run for something." Garguilo denied any interest in political office but Sullivan responded, "She couldn't say anything else at this point. And a woman has the right to change her mind even if they have given up a lot of other rights...