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...They're obviously not unbeatable because ofwhat happened in Maryland and because Ted couldn'twin the presidential nomination," said MITprofessor and Rainbow Coalition activist Mel King,who finished third in the 1986 race against JoeKennedy. "The name recognition helps, but it's nota guarantee of success...
...dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...
Thirty-two Cambridge residents signed up to vote at the registration rally, which featured Ted Kennedy Jr., an activist for the disabled, and Mel King, a former candidate for mayor of Boston, said Cambridge Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir...
...MEL KING--In 1969, while director of the Urban League of Eatern Massachusetts, King--now one of Boston's preeminent Black politicians--led a protest against the United Fund. King and others dumped table scraps on the head table of the Fund's award banquet--attended by 1000 businessmen--symbolizing, they said, the crumbs they felt the organization had been giving to Black groups...
Handicapped activist Ted Kennedy Jr., Cambridge City Councillor David E. Sullivan and activist Mel King urged citizens at the rally to register three days before the deadline...