Word: dicara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group also charges DiCara with reversing a campaign promise to vote for recision that he gave to Boston '73, a non-profit citizens' information organization. The CPPAX letter alleges that DiCara told his constituents one thing during the campaign and then did the opposite. "It's just a question that he says he is going to do something and then he doesn't," Deirdre Henderson, representative for the Park Square Improvement Association and a leader of the DiCara opposition, said last week...
...councilman claims that he qualified his pledge to Boston '73 a few weeks after making the promise. DiCara also disputes the claim that he switched his vote as a political concession to Mayor Kevin White, a chief proponent of the Park Plaza project...
...DiCara can convince the opposition to this Park Plaza stand that he acted fairly, then his most controversial vote to date will have little affect at the caucus. If he can clinch the nomination, he will have taken a major step toward becoming a Massachusetts political power. But he's taking no chances--vigorously campaigning in areas outside of Boston in the last few weeks. "Since November 6 I have hit 75 to 80 cities and towns," DiCara said last week...
...receives the Democratic nod next Saturday, DiCara will still have to wage war with incumbent Davoren in November. But if he beats Davoren, the path could be cleared towards higher offices; the secretary of state before Davoren was Mayor White. DiCara says, "Anyone who doesn't believe that people in public life should move up the ladder are saying what they want is an aristocracy where a seat is passed on by a political club." He also freely admits he doesn't want to be secretary of state all his life, though insisting that he can only...
However, no matter what office DiCara runs for next, he gives the impression of never having gotten over the glory of being a high school politician. Maybe it's the minuscule budgets or the best-friend approach of his campaign, but DiCara still seems like he is running for student council president...