Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independents, the possibility of upset exists. Walter Sullivan will breeze into office, probably at the head of the field, but Mayor Danehy, Frisoli, and Crane all face fights. Two former councilors upset in the 1977 elections. Daniel Clinton and Leonard Russell, have outspent the incumbents ("People in office are less willing to hit up their supporters for dough" theorizes one city politician), and are trying to rebuild the coalitions that elected them in the past. Danehy didn't pay his taxes on time two years ago, a revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli, who has run front page...
...balloting. David Agee and Douglas Okun don't have the ethnic and neighborhood bases that Vellucci, Danehy and their ilk draw on; their support of a "depolarized" city council may draw some votes, though, from new arrivals in the city--for the most part condo owners, who are less a part of Cambridge machine politics...
...people; of the men the fans saw, the media noted, the photographers etched. Rarely does this picture history show the picture that was never printed, the quote that wasn't punctuated by "heck" and "gee" and a series of ellipses...and the closer the history gets to 1979, the less incisive the history becomes...
Timilty has taken the anti-White tack, mostly because there's nothing in his 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...
...Neighborhoods. But Timilty failed miserably. The Commission made no concrete recommendations, and Timilty drove away half of the Commission's members in the process. He has spent most of the campaign accusing White of mismanagement, neglecting to present his own coherent vision. If Boston is going to have a less-than-perfect mayor for the next four years, it might as well be the one who's proven he can run the city...