Word: moakley
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BOSTON—The late Congressman Joseph J. Moakley (D) would like the big field of candidates seeking to replace him in this Fall’s special election, says Fred Clark, a longtime Moakley aide...
Many in Boston feel this Fall’s election as the ending of a political era for the city—an era of old-fashioned local politics promoted by Moakley and his close friend the late former Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (D), who represented the neighboring Eighth District from...
...Moakley himself was an institution, a man who acted as a champion for the young Irish working class,” says Michael Dempsey, a political science student at Suffolk University who studies Boston politics. “There is no way any of these guys running could hope to fill Moakley’s shoes...
...Moakley] can’t be replaced. He is from another era,” says Clark, who as a former Moakley campaign manager and district staff director worked with the congressman for 18 years...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...