Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another, Democrat Michael J. Barrett '70, said that "I first met Saundra Graham when she stepped on stage and provided local interest for my parents." Since then, he has been her colleague in the State House of Representatives, and is now the heavily favored candidate to succeed State Sen. George Bachrach in representing a district adjacent to his classmate...
Political consultant Michael Goldman, who advised moderate Democrat David Holway in the primary, said Barrett won because the vote was split among five strong candidates. He also said that liberals who had supported Bachrach as a popular State Senator wanted to choose a politically similar successor for him--but that Kennedy had a prior claim on their vote for Congress...
...last weeks of the primary race, the Democrat's face adorned local buses, along with the legend, "Mike Barrett speaks for us. His record speaks for itself." He said that since September, "my record is speaking for itself and it's on its own now, financially"--as he tries to recoup a $25,000 campaign debt by skimping on the paid media...
...says that since local interest has moved "from who's right on the issues to who's on first," reporters occasionally confuse the candidate with Red Sox second baseman Marty Barrett. Although the Democrat is no relation to the slugger, he said during the World Series that "as long as he does well, I do well...
...incumbent in 1980 was Francis X. McCann, a traditional Democrat who had run unopposed for many seasons. In the primary election that year, he defeated Democrat Wendy Abt, whose Republican husband, Clark C. Abt, is now running for Congress against Joseph P. Kennedy II. Bachrach defeated the incumbent as an Independent in the general election...