Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn's South Boston origin was seen as a liability in his first campaign, when he won a close race against Melvin H. King, who would have been the first Black elected Mayor of Boston. But in this year's preliminary elections, Flynn's highest victory margins were in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, predominantly Black areas of the city where Tierney has campaigned very little...
Public safety and housing are the prime concerns in those areas. Doyle says. Although the mayor has opened a "Say No to Drugs" and a Boston Against Drugs campaign, some City Councilors and other critics say this is not enough...
...Mayor Walter Sullivan, who, like David J., opposes rent control, is sanguine about the affect on his own campaign, although he says he has had to "work a little harder...
...always had a Sullivan against me," says the mayor--or "if it wasn't a Sullivan it was someone similar to." He says he first ran for Council against an impostor with the same name as his own brother--Edward J. Sullivan. "The CCA did that," he says, noting that he beat Edward...
Despite his experience, the mayor says he doesnot see trickery in David J.'s campaign. "I thinkthe kid believes in what he's doing," says WalterSullivan. "He's a real sincere...