Word: grahams
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Legislative aides and local politicians have been passing on that advice to Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge) since last Thursday night. That was when she lost her primary race to relative unknown Alvin P. Thompson by 49 votes...
...Graham blamed low turnouts, her own low-key campaigning, and newspaper coverage of drug charges against two of her sons...
...Graham announced she would run a "sticker campaign" against Thompson in the November general election, when he--for lack of a Republican opponent--will be the only one on the ballot for the 28th Middlesex District House seat. Graham plans to ask supporters to put stickers bearing her name and address on the write-in blanks inside their computer ballots' paper envelopes...
Aides to two state senators who recently ran sticker campaigns said Graham will have to appeal to unusually dedicated voters to win. Not only must voters decide which name to pick, but they must remember the name, bring stickers with them into the voting booths, and put the stickers in the right place on their ballots...
...though campaign advisers do not necessarily get administration posts, people who follow the election say that Dukakis would fill a few of his top foreign affairs posts from the K-School faculty--tapping in particular the military expertise of departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. During the Democratic Convention Allison could be seen in a VIP box mingling with political heavyweights...