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...other top candidates in preliminary polling were: Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 (1987 votes), Councillor Sheila T. Russell (1811), Councillor Jonathan S. Myers (1705), Vice Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 (1702), Councillor William H. Walsh (1472), School Committee member Alfred E. Vellucci (1226) and Councillor Edward...
Although the unofficial count puts School Committee member and well-known former mayor Alfred E. Vellucci in ninth place with 1226 votes, incumbent Edward N. Cyr is only two votes behind...
According to pundits checking out the action yesterday evening in the Longfellow School gym, where the ballots are being counted, Wolf's many transfers will probably boost Cyr past Vellucci...
Some pundits had expected that Vellucci, another pro-rent control Independent, would take votes away from Toomey...
...those ideas are outmoded, and the anti-Harvard rhetoric he spouts has grown tiresome. Vellucci was a maverick, an Independent who supported rent control and other liberal causes and loved to be the swing vote. But he brings nothing to the council, which is controlled by progressives today. His patronage politics and lack of energy and vision he displayed during his two years on School Committee and during his campaign indicate that he should be retired along with Sullivan...