Article: Menino exudes confidence as Flaherty works the city

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 ...

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