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Article: Menino exudes confidence as Flaherty works the city
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Councilor at Large Michael F. Flaherty Jr., hoping to stop Mayor
Thomas M. Menino's march toward an unprecedented fifth term in
office, crisscrossed the city yesterday seeking endorsements,
leafleted outside city office buildings in an effort to eat into the
mayor's support from municipal workers, and took a poke at Menino
for allegedly paying insufficient attention to rats in the North
End.
Menino, ahead in the polls and projecting an air of confidence,
adopted the classic Rose Garden strategy of an incumbent,
celebrating a new company moving into Boston, continuing a daily
stream of endorsement announcements, and using his large campaign
war chest to finance a barrage of voter phone calls ...