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Boston Wins by a Landslide
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy May 31, 2008 05:59pm |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Oct 24, 1983 05:00pm |
| Description | Each of the two candidates lives with his large family in the rough Boston neighborhood where he was born and raised. Both started their political careers at the grass roots, and spent most of the past decade serving in the Massachusetts state legislature. And in this year's keenly contested election for mayor, the two men were politically the most leftward in the race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly matched, in fact, that when voters in last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn. So will the general election, four weeks from now, be a blah choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Only if one overlooks the fact that Ray Flynn is white and Mel King is black. |
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