Word: flynn
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...Flynn, 48, is seeking his second term as mayor of the nation's 20th-largest city and hub of the country's 10th-largest metropolitan area. Tierney, 46, is making his first run for the $100,000-a-year job after 16 years on the City Council, 10 years as its president...
Polls have shown Flynn to be at the peak of his popularity in the city and political observers have said his election come November is almost a sure bet. A former schoolteacher, Flynn is known for his down-to-earth, neighborly style. He has been praised for reaching out to all the neighborhoods in the city...
...Flynn spent yesterday welcoming former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to the city and attending a groundbreaking with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for a $20.3 million, 165-unit housing project in Boston's Mission Hill section...
...project, the largest state-funded project of its kind in the city, is for first-time homebuyers and low-income renters. Flynn called it "truly a national model...
Tierney, considered more conservative than Flynn, spent the day "out in the community" campaigning, said campaign director Evelyn Friedman, who described Tierney's chances heading into the preliminary as "great...