Word: marttila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time, however, VanderVeen got considerable help from the United Auto Workers and the Boston political-consulting firm of Marttila, Payne, Kiley & Thorne, which had helped engineer up set victories for Father Robert Drinan in a Massachusetts congressional race in 1970 and for Joseph Biden in a 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware. The Democrats never let the voters forget that VanderLaan was a man from Nixon's party, while their candidate was "his own man." In a district where Republicanism is considered next to godliness, the Democrats emphasized how far the idols had fallen. In one campaign...
...election--an approach which his weekly polls tell him is working well. The primary thrust of his organization is a canvass of almost all 152,000 voters in the city, using computers to discover the issues most important to different groups of voters. His campaign manager John P. Marttila, who also ran Father Drinan's campaign last year, last week denied the charge that the campaign lacked the personal touch, "What could be more personal than going door to door and talking to the voters...
Since June, White's campaign has been organized by John Marttila, the 30-year-old professional campaign manager who led Fr. Robert F. Drinan to victory last year...
...Marttila conducted 17 polls, created 14 neighborhood headquarters, and sent out several well-done fliers...
...Mayor ran better than even Marttila expected. "The current wisdom is that she'll win by about 15,000 votes. I think it will be closer than that," Marttila had predicted on the Sunday before the elections (Boston Globe, September...