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Article: VOTE-HUNTERS STALKING WEST ROXBURY FACE TIME PAYS WELL IN A PLACE OF HIGH TURNOUT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2003
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It comes with the ending of summer. The sun fades, the leaves
fall, the children return to school, and as shoppers make their way
on Saturday mornings to the Roche Bros. grocery store in West
Roxbury, they walk right into the new season.
Every city election year, customers enter the supermarket's
vestibule to find a gaggle of City Council candidates pumping hands
and seeking their support. Other years, it's a group of legislative
candidates. This is Ward 20, fertile ground in the most politically
fertile neighborhood of Boston.
"Campaign signs," West Roxbury resident Liam Day said, "pop up
like flowers."
Now as candidates prepare for the Nov. 4 general election, the
eight finalists in the ...