Word: massport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King began his Tuesday schedule with a brisk three-mile jog through the streets of Winthrop. Wednesday morning, King reverted to his usual routine of a run along Winthrop beach around 6 a.m. The more important difference, of course, was that on Wednesday, it was no longer a former Massport director chugging across the sand. It was the governor-elect...
...there is enough room in the Democratic party to accommodate arch conservative types like King. In the same way that he didn't know which league the Sox play baseball in, perhaps Carter doesn't know King's league either. Maybe he does't know that when King ran Massport, he abused a credit-card entertainment budget and that he makes questionable promises to reduce property taxes by $500 million, or that when King talks about reviewing welfare payments, he talks pejoratively of letting people "even have their band-aids" if they want them...
...WANTED TO bleed him," said a thoroughly disgruntled former Massachusetts state representative last Wednesday morning, in explaining his vote for Edward J. King, former Massport director, now known as The Man Who Dumped the Duke...
...those aren't the issues in the 1978 campaign: former Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermanndoesn't have the money to mount an effective liberal challenge to Dukakis. And former MassPort Director Ed King would not only slash the incomes of poor people, he'd also sweep environmental, consumer and women's issues under the carpet. Dukakis will win again, but there is no joy in Mudville...
...despite King's rhetorical affinity for workingclass people, his opponents believe any man who was director of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) for 16 years cannot be much of a workingclass hero...