Word: kinged
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White picked up many of the votes cast in the preliminary election for Boston School Committee President David Finnegan--and in the city's black wards, where he was beaten by State Rep Melvin H. King in the primary, he humiliated his challenger...
Timilty knows this. And so, in what many see as a desperation move, he's moderated his stance on rent control and taken several jabs at White's handling of the racial issue. Timilty's campaign aides won't deny their motives. "The people who voted for Mel King are looking for some kind of a statement they can hang onto," one said after the candidate found a new urge to support rent control. "We're giving them one." White, through a series of obnoxious "Breakfast at the Bixbys" radio commercials, has attacked Timilty for waffling--something which the mayor...
...order to pull off a minor miracle on November 6--the latest poll gave White a 14 per cent victory margin--Timilty needs endorsements from the King and Finnegan camps. And he just hasn't gotten them. King, who supported Timilty in 1975, agreed with the Black Political Task Force's assessment of this year's race: vote against White, but don't endorse Timilty. The city's other leading liberal--State Rep. Barney Frank '62--gave his support to Timilty. But with the major papers lined up against him, it all seems too little and too late. The Finnegan...
...admits that after 12 years the voters are looking for an alternative. But he has staked his campaign on the belief that Joe Timilty is not the man they're looking for. In fact, over the last eight years, none of the alternatives--Louise Day Hicks, David Finnegan, Mel King or Timilty--has drawn enough balanced support to unseat the mayor...
...chance tomorrow. Timilty must also pick up some black and liberal votes to counter White's rising popularity with the Irish. Yet he has done little to win liberal voter's support, evidenced by the ambivalent semi-endorsement "I won't be for Kevin" statements of State Representative Mel King...