Word: toomey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Toomey Sioux Falls...
Within Cambridge, the victory of City Councilor Saundra Graham over incumbent John J. Toomey for the fourth Middlesex district's seat in the state legislature is very encouraging. Graham has been a dedicated member of the city council, and a vocal advocate of rent control and the rights of the city's minority groups. In the state house, Graham should continue those efforts and serve Cambridge as a much more distinguished representative than her predecessor...
...Toomey is a once-powerful legislator who has fallen on hard times. He is the second most senior member of the House, and was at one time chairman of the Ways and Means Committee...
...real estate insurance broker by trade, Toomey was indicted in the mid-sixties for trying to influence the award of the insurance contract on the construction of the Callahan Tunnel in Boston...
...Toomey was acquitted, and re-elected bi-annually, but never regained his influence after relinquishing the Ways and Means chairmanship...