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There's also not much of a chance that Mason can beat Drinan in the Catholic western part of the district. Even if he does beat Drinan in the west, it will have to be by a large margin to offset Drinan's power in Brookline and Newton...
Mason started to think about running for Congress a year and half ago. "I thought our district needed an effective legislator. I didn't think we were getting the right type of legislator for 1976," Mason says. Mason objects to Drinan's voting record on defense appropriations, claiming that Drinan has voted against "every single defense budget since he's been in Congress. And now, when the Army is thinking about closing Ft. Devens in the northern part of the district, Mason says that Drinan's fight to keep the base open is "hypocritical and lacks credibility...
...Drinan has only had four weeks of campaigning in defense of his seat. His campaign strategy has been to emphasize his record in Congress. "He's talking about traditional Democratic values--he's cut unemployment in the district by 25 per cent," Lois S. Traub, Drinan's campaign manager, says. Traub says that Drinan welcomes Mason's challenge because it will put to rest a lot of misunderstanding about the support Drinan has in the district...
...past elections are an indication, Drinan will beat Mason. There is very little chance that Mason can stay even with Drinan in the east. When Linsky ran in 1972 he was very popular in Brookline and had won town-wide elections against Democrats four times. Still, Drinan beat him in Brookline. "It's hard to believe that Mason will do better in Brookline than I did," Linsky says...
With his huge appeal to liberals in the east and his record for attracting the Catholics in the west, Drinan should continue as Capitol Hill's resident Jesuit for another two years...