Word: finneganisms
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...predominantly issueless campaign, Boston School Committee President David Finnegan has outlined some concrete policy proposals that make sense for Boston. Finnegan's record on the School Committee has been solid; he supports vacancy decontrol, has had experience in fighting racism and wants to draw the city's diverse elements together. But Finnegan seems overly sympathetic to the needs of the private sector. His embarrassing resignation from his $20,000 a year job as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry is only symptomatic of such leanings...
Boston School Committee President David Finnegan grouped White and Timility together, saying they both support vacancy decontrol, a policy that is driving rents up in the city...
...Like the McCoys and the Hatfields, White and Timilty have been throwing rocks at each other since 1971 but they stand together on this," Finnegan said...
...Finnegan responded by saying that the fight against racism is "a question of public officials having the courage and the fire to make the decisions that might be unpopular, but are fair...
...unit to oversee activities in City Hall. "If integrity was the issue in 1975," says one city insider, "leadership is the issue this year." The natural issue for this election was "time for a change." But for the majority of Bostonians, King is too much of a change and Finnegan stupidly got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. With only a dozen days left in the first campaign, it looks like (yawn) White and Timilty, singing the same old song...