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...Chicago surprise was made possible by the swelling involvement of a traditionally dormant group-the Blacks. If a similar rebellion of outsiders against White's cynical politics takes place, two candidates stand to benefit-South Boston City Councilor Raymond D. Flynn and Black South End State Representative Melvin H. King. Both have fared well in low-income and minority areas in the past, and both, like Washington in Chicago, have made the machine a major target of their campaigns...
Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn--one of six candidates trying to unseat Boston Mayor Kevin H. White in November says he is the candidate of the city's minorities and neighborhoods...
Born in downtrodden South Boston in 1939. Flynn's career has been a prototype for political success. Son of a longshoreman and a house cleaner, he went on to Providence College, where he was an All-American basketball player...
Boston's troubles--crime, schooling, housing, fire protection, racial violence, government corruption--are all direct consequences of the failure of White's administration to "effectively deal with the problems of the city," Flynn says...
...Flynn will try to reach out to minorities and neighborhood residents who, he says, have been largely ignored by white and downtown commercial development. Flynn wants more money for the neighborhoods and a reduction in funds for downtown development...