Word: mayors
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Johns, as customers of prostitutes are known, are finding the times a bit tough these days. Last week in New York City, a burg known for its peccadilloes, the municipally owned radio station, under orders from Mayor Edward Koch, started broadcasting the names of men convicted of patronizing prostitutes. In Minneapolis, a city noted for its civic probity, some leading citizens were unmasked as sometime Johns. The Minneapolis Star published an expose identifying 13 men who have frequented certain sauna baths and other places of prostitution. Six of them are key public figures who have played a role in shaping...
Even when he's working in his drug store up on Mass Ave., Thomas W. Danehy is the mayor of Cambridge...
...mayor, who talks about Harvard and expansion a lot less than his colleagues, was the major driving force behind the city's involvement in a citizen's group lawsuit asking for an injunction against extension of the Red Line. Danehy is a neighborhood man at heart, and though he protested the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's project on technical grounds' he feared about crime and protecting Cambridge...
Both those trends could boost the more conservative independent candidates--incumbents Thomas W. Danehy (Mayor), Kevin P. Crane, Lawrence A. Frisoli and Walter J. Sullivan and strong challengers Leonard Russell, Daniel Clinton and Richard Bentubo...
Among the old-line 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...