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THESE RESULTS, coupled with an understanding of the challengers who won seats and those incumbents who finished high, clearly indicate that Boston voters repudiated their past excesses and reaffirmed their satisfaction with mediocrity. State Rep. Raymond D. Flynn of South Boston won primarily because of his reputation as a "moderate" anti-buser and the name recognition he gained by leading the crusade to eliminate medicaid funds for abortions in Massachusetts. Flynn finished very poorly in the 1975 council race, but with the publicity garnered by his anti-abortion bill, he changed the rules of rabblerousing somewhat, using the issue...
...which Hicks, Kerrigan and Palladino lose to Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie...
Rosemary Sansone and State Rep. Raymond D. Flynn, the sponsor of the defeated Flynn-Doyle Bill, which would have cut off state funding for abortions, won council seats...
Vellucci was the second lecturer to appear at the Greenough Dinner Forum, an organization founded by Thomas W. Flynn '81, Denis J. Kennedy '81, and David L. Bragden '81, all of Greenough Hall...
...jamboree's purpose was to "give the Union the homey touch." Thomas W. Flynn '81, an organizer of the event, said yesterday...