Word: neponset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Savin Hill, where White garnered only 39 per cent of the vote last election, he piled up 55 per cent of the ballots. H gained 10 percentage points in con- servative areas of Hyde Park and did better than ever before in Neponset and West Roxbury...
...Council's decision to turn down the Neponset site was hardly surprising nor were the methods that it used to delay and stall that decision as long a possible. Saltonstall has certainly been around City Hall long enough to know about political pressures and chicanery. There was no way that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were...
Roxbury, Mattapan and South Boston all border on Dorchester, and all four of those councillors depend heavily on the Dorchester vote in a city-wide election. Neponset, which sits between South Boston, Mattapan and Quincy, is an influential section of Dorchester, and one which Atkins, Timility. O'Leary and, yes, even Hicks, could ill afford to alienate...
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...
Later in the evening, after the results of the poll had been tabulated, it was announced that the citizens of Dorchester had voted down the use of Neponset by a 3-1 margin. The Vox Populi had spoken, and if the four councillors liked their jobs, they were going to go along...