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Article: Mayoral race keys on West Roxbury Active electorate

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August 4, 1993
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The political powerhouse of West Roxbury is emerging as a critical battleground in the race for mayor this year because while it boasts more voters than any other ward in the city, it lacks a home-grown candidate to back in this campaign.

Last Friday night, a waving Suffolk County Sheriff Robert C. Rufo stood sentry on a Centre Street corner in West Roxbury, even though a significant percentage of the neighborhood's' residents had headed south to Cape beaches.

On the last lazy weekend in July, Rufo and the other leading mayoral hopefuls were aggressively courting the sophisticated West Roxbury electorate with door-to-door appeals, house parties, midsummer literature drops, and streetcorner ...

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