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Article: A leader in touch, in gear
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Detractors compare Tom Menino to the late Richard J. Daley, who
ruled Chicago for 21 years, the last of the big-city bosses. But
Menino's style also resembles that of William Donald Schaefer, a
political free spirit who governed Baltimore for 16 years in the
1970s and '80s, famous for phoning in fix-it orders for problems he
spotted around the city.
With yesterday's triumph, Menino steps into the history books in
that rare company, bypassing in the process two local legends, James
Michael Curley and Kevin Hagan White, to become the only Boston
mayor to win a fifth four-year term in office. In a toxic political
environment that imperiled incumbents all over the country, Menino
was reelected ...