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Radical Roslindale

By adamg on Sun, 07/30/2006 - 10:22am

Kristie Helms goes out canvassing her Bourne Hill neighborhood for Deval Patrick and discovers:

We got to meet a lot of fantastic people, found a lot of supporters and I realized just how intensely radical and involved my Roslindale/Jamaica Plain neighborhood is. I think I nearly got recruited for a couple of different revolutions being plotted out of the Bourne Hill area. ...

Neighborhoods: 
Roslindale
Topics: 
Politics
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2006 elections
Deval Patrick


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By Rhea on Sun, 07/30/2006 - 8:17pm.

Yeah, JP/Rozzie rock. Progressive politics is still intact here.

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By massmarrier on Mon, 07/31/2006 - 2:49pm.

Way back, flashy-backy...

You remind me (I'm old) of when I campaigned door to door for George McGovern in the 1972 President's race. I was on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by obviously conservative Russians and Eastern Europeans who had fled Communism.

I knew it was going to be tough, but I canvassed. Most residents were old women, who either didn't speak English or would not speak to a hippie. It was discouraging.

However, it was my prejudice. In fact, most of those in the neighborhood were strongly for McGovern; our precinct voted overwhelming for him. I have absolutely no doubt now that I convinced no one. Rather, I was wasting my time because they were already left-leaning, anti-war voters.

It can be very pleasantly surprising where like-minded voters are hiding.

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