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...serious candidates--of whom former School Committee President David I. Finnegan and City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn are considered favorites--offered even less excitement. Former State Representative Melvin H. King reached out to gays, women, the poor, and Blacks--whom he termed the "niggers" of Boston. Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney called for opening the door to City Hall and banishing crime from the streets, presumably enhancing his good-guy image, Flynn copped an FDR line, offering the observation that the role of government is to help those who can't help themselves--which prompted one member...
...eight candidates present were former Boston City Councilor Lawrence S Dicara '71, former School Committee President David I Finnegan, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk Country Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H King, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H. King, Boston City Councilor Frederick Langone, and Socialist Workers' Party candidate Eloise Langer...
...painter of substance, not fantasy; but imagination rises through the substance. His earliest childhood memories, the elements of his genetic code as a painter, were all about the weight and noise and feel of things he grew up with as a well-off son of a watermill owner in Suffolk, on the River Stour. "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams . . . willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, and brickwork. I love such things," he wrote to a friend. "They made me a painter (and I am grateful) . . . I had often thought of pictures of them before I had ever...
Dennis J. Kearney '72 likes to talk tough, has a tough handshake, and has, since 1977, held one of the toughest jobs in the city of Boston, sheriff of Suffolk Country...
...internal affairs--much like a similar department he says cleaned up a sheriff's office plagued by corruption in the mid-seventies. In fact, it was the resignation of then-sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt in 1977 due to charges of corruption and misuse of office that brought Kearney to the Suffolk Country Courthouse in the first place...