Word: democratically
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Vellucci's political career dates back to his 21st birthday, when he ran as an independent Democrat against a slate for the Democratic City Committee. He knocked an incumbent off the slate and won a seat, which entitled him to be a delegate to that year's Democratic State Convention. There followed a long gap in his political career, which reopened in 1950 with his election to the Cambridge School Committee. He served on the Committee four years and then ran for the City Council, where he has served for 16 years. The nine-man Council elects a mayor from...
...York, most non-Republicans cast their votes for both Charles E. Goodell, the liberal Republican incumbent whom Agnew had blasted as "the Christene Jorgenson" of the party, and Democrat Rep. Richard L. Ottinger. Conservative James L. Buckley, who was supported by the Administration, won with only 38 per cent of the vote...
...Tenth District, antiwar Democrat Gerry Studds clung to a precarious 3400-vote lead out of nearly 16,000 cast over six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith, while the antiwar campaign of Democrat Bertram A. Yaffe appeared headed for defeat at the hands of long-time Republican Twelfth District congresswoman Margaret Heckler, who led by more than 7000 votes out of 43,000 cast with one-fourth of the votes counted...
...Ninth District, conservative Democrat Louise Day Hicks roundly defeated her two opponents, Republican Laurence Curtis and Independent Daniel Houton, by amassing nearly 60 per cent of the votes...
After encountering surprisingly strong opposition, antiwar Democrat Michael Harrington apparently defeated Howard Phillips, thus earning his first full term in the Sixth District Seat he won in a special election last year...