Ellis-Hagler loses primary
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losing their jobs or funding if they openthey could," Ellis-Hagler says, "but the most they can do is stuff behind the scenes." Furthermore, Mayor Flynn hasn't made it any easier for Roxbury residents to register to vote.
But it is also true that the campaign has not taken off. What was needed was to support community fights against the Democratic Party power structure, against a strategy of cooperation with the bank and business politicians who are destroying the Black community, and to work for the needs of the Black community and working people. This would necessarily involve breaking with the Democratic Party and its "progressive" hangers-on.
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The Rev. Graylan Ellis-Hagler placed third in the Sept. 24, 1991, "non-partisan" primary election for mayor of Boston Only candidates with the top two highest number of votes will be on the ballot for the Nov. 5, 1991, city-wide election for mayor of Boston. Therefore, the Rev. EllisHagler will not be on the ballot in November. The vote totals were as follows:
Ray Flynn 47,000 Ed Doherty-12,000 Rev. Graylan Ellis-Hagler-5000 ACTION OCTOBER 1991 7
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ly back his campaign. "There are lots of people who say they'd work for me if