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...year ago, rumor had it that O'Neill was planning to take a shot at her father-in-law Tip's seat in the House of Representatives. The National Women's Political Caucus, looking for a female candidate for the Eighth Congressional race, asked O'Neill to run. According to her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, former lieutenant governor, she did seriously consider taking up the offer. "She's the most electable O'Neill," he says. "She's throughly liberal with a sense of humor, and that stands out in a crowd...
Long-time Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci says if O'Neill had run, she would have won, "and they'd have had the first woman Congressman in this district." O'Neill's Italian heritage--her maiden name is DeMartino--would have appealed to the Eighth, one-third Italian, Vellucci says, but when he tried to convince her to run, "she just flashed a big, pretty smile...
...Neill denies that she ever seriously considered running, explaining that "it required enormous personal sacrifice, and at this time of life, it's not something I want to do." She says that she is a "strong advocate of women running for political office," but refuses to comment about future ambitions for a political career...
Local politicians say that O'Neill quickly decided not to take part in the Eighth. "I asked her because I was thinking of running myself," says Duehay. "She said it was never a very serious possibility...
...father-in-law, Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr., did his best to dissuade everyone in his family from a career politics because "it's too tough a life," her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, says. The former lieutenant governor gave up his own political career to become a successful real estate developer in Boston...