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...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...
...seemed a difference that was, for an encouraging number of voters, secondary, if not quite overlooked. Nearly a third of King voters were white, Flynn was endorsed by the minister of one of the city's largest black congregations, and the only charge of racism that figured in the exceptionally polite primary campaign was made by one white candidate against an1 other. In all, a decade of ugly racial confrontation overs court-ordered busing was symbolically fading. "We are making history!" shouted King at his victory party at the downtown Parker House. "History! History! History!" Flynn was saying almost...
Both King and Flynn, 44, were underdogs when the campaign got under way last March. The early front runner, former Radio Personality David Finnegan, as handsome and glib as he was generously financed and politically well connected, looked unbeatable once White was out of the way. Yet Finnegan, 42, who spent more than twice as much on the campaign as King and Flynn combined, acquired a reputation for arrogance and for being the too smooth "downtown candidate" run by the Boston Establishment. He finished third, with 25% of the vote, 4 percentage points behind the leaders...
...candidates Flynn defeated also made an appearance outside the K- School Michael Gelber, a beam weapon advocate and disciple of presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. remained outside the forum, charging. "They have seven prostitutes lecturing on gonorrhea, and they're not letting the doctor [LaRouche] speak...
Boston mayoral finalist Raymond L. Flynn lingered outside after the forum, talking with supporters and journalists...