Word: moakley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hicks--the only congresswoman to lose last week--accepted defeat in the same manner that she ran her re election campaign--aloof from her supporters and surrounded by a tiny coterie of hard-nosed Irish politicians. Unlike Moakley who spent most of election night communing with his troops at Boston's Statler Hilton. Hicks made only a brief appearance at the Dedham restaurant that served as her "headquarters...
...herself in the campaign with pols left over from the old 9th, toughened battle-scarred veterans who still remember the district as John McCormack's stomping ground. After last week's defeat, these wily campaign vets may have to-scrap their playbook, and borrow a few pages from Joe Moakley...
...crowd at the Statler Hilton ballroom broke into cheers and dancing at 10:15 p.m. when returns from the South End's ward 4 pushed Moakley ailed for the first time. The lower class ethnic and racially mixed neighborhood handed Moakley all but one of its precincts...
Appearing at 11:15 Moakley told the crowd that he was optimistic "I have a victory speech, but I'll postpone it for a couple of hours when the suburban votes come in," he said...
...Moakley researches expected suburban rules to give him the election, but these votes remained the unknown factor until early in the morning. "When I'm elected tomorrow, we're going to put voting machines out in those towns," Moakley said...