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Thompson, a school truant officer and former assistant to the City Manager for community relations, defeated Democratic incumbent Saundra Graham by 49 votes in September's primary. Graham is running a write-in/sticker campaign against him to regain her seat...
...other side, Thompson maintains that his name's presence on the ballot does not assure him victory. "I'm running as if I'm the loser," the Cambridge truant officer said in an interview Friday...
...truant officer said his agenda includes providing day-care for children in vacant public school classrooms, hiring a staffer to handle issues affecting the gay and lesbian community and opening more homeless shelters. He also promised to speed up the fight against drugs...
Instead, she kicked off a write-in/sticker campaign against Cambridge truant officer Alvin P. Thompson, who unexpectedly beat her to the nomination two weeks...
Graham's supporters like to think of her as a champion of the underdog, and consider her a leader in the Legislature on crucial issues. They make an effective case that the politically unknown Thompson--a truant officer with the Cambridge School Department--would be far less influential as a legislator because of his pro-landlord position on rent control. As one Graham campaign aide put it, "losing Saundra Graham would be a tragedy for Cambridge...