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BOSTON--Sparks flew in the U.S. Senate race last night as the first of seven debates between Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66 and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass) got underway at Fanieul Hall...
Portraying Weld as a callous politician, Kerry accused him of making "a political career out of picking on people on welfare" and called the governor's standards for welfare "Draconian...
...Weld angrily defended welfare reform policy as the only measure that would eliminate poverty and the welfare mentality...
Helplessness. That's what I felt when Massachussetts Governor Bill Weld gerrymandered my hometown--Northampton--out of the 1st congressional district for the sole purpose of trying to get a Republican into Massachusetts' delegation. The summer after 10th grade, I had spent a month volunteering for the campaign of my congressman, John Olver, a retired UMass chemistry professor. I had attended his frenetic victory party, filled with hope for this system I had--or so I thought--learned to work within. Liberalism had its moment in the sun and I felt a part...
...away from me, and slick-haired Richie Neal--a Democrat, yes, but no Olver--was now my representative. In spite of the hopeful fact that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn't ultimately work (John Olver is currently US Representative...