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...June, when the Boston Herald reported that Max and his first cousin Michael Skakel--now charged with a 25-year-old murder in Connecticut--were arrested in 1983 for assaulting a Harvard campus cop. Then came a Globe poll showing Max in a dead heat with state senator Stephen Lynch, an ex-ironworker who grew up in the blue-collar Southie neighborhood. That weekend, four days before Max was to announce his candidacy, his press spokesman, Scott Ferson, got a call from Hyannis Port. "I'm not going to do this," Max told...
...Lynch can easily identify his supporters because they are more geographically compact, he can rely on a more tightly-knit voter base and especially unions that will dig out voters on Election Day,” Clark explains...
He’ll be supporting Lynch in the fall, he says...
While voters in the suburbs have largely ignored the race, South Boston is littered with Lynch signs and campaign paraphernalia. He has secured the endorsements of about 40 local trade unions and is considered to have a solid working-class base, say many observers...
...Connor agrees with Clark that the district’s changing face will benefit Lynch. However, Lynch will need to raise his visibility beyond Southie in order to appeal to suburban towns in the district. Likewise, Joyce will need to engage voters outside his suburban base of Milton...