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...campaign trail, Silber has mad a name for himself as the King of Soundbites--cultivating a blunt, outspoken style that has slighted Blacks, Jews, gays, feminists, the elderly and immigrants, among others. This insensitivity to a large portion of the electorate is in itself reason to oppose Silber's candidacy...
...most compelling strike against Silber is that despite his carefully cultivated renegade image, he represents all the inside dealing that has made politics a despised profession in this state. Silber has taken money from dozens of corporate PACs and influential politicians; the Boston Globe noted that his campaign disclosure list reads like a Who's Who of Massachusetts politics...
...COMPARISON to Silber, Frank Bellotti is just another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty...
OOZING with distortions and hyperbole, the staff opinion looks more like the cheesy garden casserole reviled in its opening paragraph than a sensible analysis of the Democratic gubernatorial primary. And despite the puffed-up rhetoric and tasty criticisms which it hurls at John Silber, it fails to address the issues most pressing to Massachusetts voters: the economy and crime...
While we do not endorse either candidate, we find the staff's treatment of John Silber unfair and irrelevant. True, Silber has clumsily offended groups whose support he desperately needs to win the governorship. But in its rush to paint Silber as a backwards racist, sexist and anti-Semite, the staff fails to recognize that Silber's gratuitous comments are nothing more than the unpleasant biproducts of his "straight-shooting" personality and his inexperience with the mass media...