Word: eds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thanks, Joe." The voice is cool and quiet. If people vote for Tommy O'Neill, then they have to vote for Ed King. But while this bothers O'Neill, it isn't such a bitter pill to swallow for the hundreds of ironworkers, plasterers and plumbers who are milling around the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon. In fact, they rather like the idea, and don't hesitate to tell you why. It's a class war--the working man against the intellectual elite. Hatch's record as a state rep has been weak and they claim he has voted against...
Five days and 10 hours. Hatch's people look around at each other. Yeah, Frank did look good tonight. They wonder if it will work. For the first time all fall their candidate got tough with Ed King, like he too realized the clock was running out. Mastrangelo, dressed in a gray flannel suit vest and pants, with little bulges of fat straining the buttons, says that Frank has been aggressive, and tonight's debate looked particularly good because for once they had all spent some time working on his speeches. As we're talking, Mastrangelo bites down...
...woman who will identify herself only as "a Truman liberal" explains why she will vote for Ed King. "People in labor just can't indulge themselves in the luxury of an intellectual...That's what Frank Hatch is. He has never been a hero to the liberal, and all of a sudden, since he and King won the primaries, Hatch has become this purist." She adds one final note of warning to her statement. "If Hatch becomes governor, it will be like a finishing school experience for the next four years...
...King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming to? This is a society that must survive. Ed King is a man that will get out there and fight. He'll get out there and fight for his neighbors...
...Kennedy? Where did it all begin? If Mike Dukakis hadn't gotten stomped way back on September 19, well, none of this would be happening now. Remember, Ed King and his gang weren't quite sure they would be able to "Dump the Duke" or the "Dukakis Jewdiciary"--not quite sure because when it finally happened Ed himself looked pretty surprised. But they did it in a big way, leaving Frank Hatch to face a Democrat who drove people like his running mate, Tommy O'Neill, into complete silence. Frank Hatch was not prepared for the block of Democrats...