Word: moakley
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What's happening is that Joe Moakley, who's wanted to be a Congressman for an eternity, finally realized that it's not very possible to beat Louise Day Hicks in a primary. So instead of sitting out the election for the 9th Congressional District as he did for so long, waiting for John McCormack to finish up his 42-year stint in the House of Representatives, or running against Congresswoman Hicks as he did in he primary two years ago. Moakley decided to run this year as an Independent. In a district where almost everybody almost always votes Democratic...
...famous, has a race this year between two popular, Irish, Democratic vote-getters. There's also a Republican in the race, 34-year-old Alcholic Beverages Control Commission Chairman Howard M. Miller, but in Boston's ethnic, working class 9th, Republicans don't matter very much, and Hicks and Moakley are both treating Miller like a nice little boy who has somehow wandered in where the big guys...
...Moakley has also been an extremely popular votegetter, getting a lot of support from the same groups on which Hicks has built her career--the working class ethnic whites of South Boston and Dorchester. Like Hicks, he is a traditional urban politician. But there the similarities end. Moakley is a liberal who has used his 14 years in the Massachusetts State Legislature and his year on the Boston City Council to work for a number of traditionally liberal causes. His attempts to improve public housing have won particular acclaim from Boston's poor community...
While he is far from a radical, Moakley is trying to paint himself as a populist in this-campaign. Big block letters in bright Irish Green blare his name out from the outside of his second-story campaign headquarters on Union Street at the edge of Boston's North End. His billboards say in stark black-on-white lettering "Joe Moakley vs. Louise Day Hicks" and then, in bright green. "Give 'Em Hell, Joe." He talks about tax reform, about unemployment, about giving the little guy a break. Inside, the headquarters looks like the typical underdog operation--kids are running...
Cornell, in the meantime, is no slouch team. On October 16, the Big Red smashed Lafayette, 16-47 at Ithaca's Moakley Course. The win was the squad's third of the seasons, against no losses...