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...record to talk about. Timilty's biggest selling point is his work as chairman of President Carter's National Commission on Neighborhoods. But his performance there, like his work in the state house, was less than stellar. Almost half the commission's 19 members dissented on the final report--and the other half quit or were fired. And Timilty has been stressing the "neighborhood" issue, whatever that means. Said one Commission member: "Joe's notion of leadership was you give everybody everything and then they owe you and they'll vote...
...doesn't need the CHT card file to help his effort. It's a little hard to gauge the strength of the CHT campaign effort--the group as of Friday hadn't filed the campaign finance report due a week earlier. Group president Richard Fraiman says the final tally will be somewhere in the several thousands of dollars. And although Cambridge political folk wisdom conventionally holds that there are more tenants than landlords, hence more CCA than CHT votes, the conservatives have a whole new constituency to appeal to this year--the more than 2,000 condominium owners who moved...
...Timilty is not everyone's alternative to Kevin White. Safe money says not enough voters think he is their alternative. Even with the low turnout of a preliminary, White earned more votes in South Boston this September than he has ever earned there in a final election. He took Hyde Park this fall with the same number of votes that resulted in his losing the ward to Timilty in 1975. The mayor continues to have nearly unanimous support in the black and liberal wards and solid backing in Italian East Boston...
White entered the campaign for the final election with a tremendous lead. But the one thing that could hurt his chances almost did--a resurgence of racial tensions. Ironically, it is not with the black voters or the South Boston Irish that the city's racial problems have most hurt White's campaign. It is rather with the civic-minded middle class voters who just want the violence to end, the moderates who are the back-bone of White's coalition. Just as White began to deliver on his promise of stability, he seemed to lose control...
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