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...James Shannon, the former Democratic Congressman who is given a strong chance to become the next Attorney General, released a statement hoping for "the same kind of working relationship enjoyed by Frank Bellotti and Bill Weld," supposing that he and McNamara became the successors to Attorney General Francis X. Belloti and U.S. Attorney William Weld...
...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...
...Shannon, 34, is expected to beat Shotwell, 33, easily; according to one recent poll, Shannon is leading by a 55-13 percent margin...
Francis X. Bellotti, who is leaving the post of Attorney General after a 12-year stint, has declined to endorse any of the candidates. Shannon has received the support of Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, who praises the candidate's plans for drug enforcement...
...Shannon has emphasized an attorney general's need for broad expertise, in drug trafficking, the environment, civil rights and insurance. Shotwell, in turn, highlights Shannon's limited courtroom experience...