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Another fellow Silber supporter and Mather resident, Andrew J. Mirabella '91, says that, while he doesn't think Gallagher picks fights intentionally, he seemed to thrive on "fighting constant battles against people who were saying that Silber...
This very temperament may have caused him to run afoul of the Democratic Club last fall while working for Silber. When the issue of Harvard Democrats working for Silber's campaign first came up early in the fall, members were quoted as saying that no one in the group had yet organized to work with the campaign. "We said we weren't formally supporting him, and it came out in The Crimson as though we weren't endorsing him," says former President of the Democratic Club Neil A. Cooper...
...Gallagher, interpreted the club's inaction as a formal rejection of the party's nominated candidate. Gallagher jumped into the fray and succeeded in ruffling not a few feathers in the club. "I thought he was a Republican until the day I heard he was going to organize for Silber," Harmon, then president of the Democratic Club, says. "We talked to Colin and some of the students for Silber about working within the Club. They didn't say no, but they didn't really do it either...
Harmon says he questions Gallagher's seriousness about actually working for Silber rather than attempting to cause a stir. If Gallagher had worked within the club, Harmon believes, "some people who were sort of undecided could have come over to Silber. There were certainly some people who did work for Silber and working within the club would have definitely helped his cause...
Cooper, however, says that while he finds Gallagher an enigmatic political figure, he doesn't question his motives in not working within the Democratic Club in his efforts for Silber. "He said he wanted as many different people in the group as possible and thought that working in the club would have limited that," Cooper says. "He has his principles and does some interesting things sometimes on impulse, but on a personal level, he's a nice...