Word: mayor
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...beer at 10:30 on a Friday morning, Raymond sat down next to me and remembered aloud how S. Klein's once anchored the vibrant string of stores along Broad in the fifties and sixties. Thinking back to those days, he praised the treatment of the "little guy" under Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the politician whose bungling and corruption led to the catastrophic 1967 riots...
...wanted a job back then, you go to him and you got a job," Raymond told me while leaning close enough so I could smell his breath. Pointing to where city hall stood, he attacked the current black mayor, Sharpe James: "All that guy James cares about is the suburbs and the rich folks...
Michael Capuano, mayor of Somerville and Democratic nominee for the 8th District's Congressional seat, exhibited his brash, in-your-face politics and fierce commitment to constituents last night in a speech to about 50 undergraduates in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge...
Capuano said he is convinced that his frank style and local appeal overcame stronger name recognition--former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Raymond L. Flynn was a candidate--and deeper pockets in the party primary...
...just in case some voters associate such initiatives as prenatal nutrition, day care, parental education and domestic-violence prevention with big-spending liberalism, Reiner and his highly paid political consultants have cleverly lined up a cast of conservative backers. Former Senate candidate Michael Huffington and Los Angeles Republican mayor Richard Riordan are co-chairmen, and Pat Boone has posed for a G.O.P.-directed mailer. Indeed, the measure was crafted to avoid a "Big Government" label: it would apportion most of the tax revenue according to the number of births in each county and distribute it to commissions of unsalaried appointees...