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Yeah I think I hit the button a second time, or the FR software hiccuped.

Wikipedia says Menino ran unopposed in 97. Entry for
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Menino served nine years on Boston’s city council when Ray Flynn left the mayor’s seat to become United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Menino, the council president at the time, became acting mayor for four months. He was elected to his first term in November 1993, defeating State Representative James Brett 64% to 36%. He became the city’s first non-Irish-American mayor since 1930. After running unopposed for a second term in 1997, Menino defeated Boston City Councilor Peggy Davis-Mullen in 2001 for a third term with 76% of the vote[2] and in 2005 garnered 67% of the vote in beating Maura Hennigan, another councilor.

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etc.
Speaking of the Holy See there’s a pun in the Beatles
movie Yellow Submarine. “Is that the Sea of Holes?”—
“Or the Holy See?”
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btw I remember Howie used to imply Raybo was a bit of a drinker, on air (speaking of which The Mayor of the Neighborhoods used to have an RKO gig). I don’t know if Flynn was, though. Howie would play a bit of Ray speaking and in the background you’d hear a tinkling piano, mellow a la Floyd Cramer, and finally you’d hear the vocals and realize it was an old ad jingle:

“If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the beer...”

Also Howie brought up on air the pic of Ray as amb. to the Vatican, holding up an umbrella to protect His Eminence. How did Ray look? As Jerry Williams, used to say, he looked...
“...annoyed...”

Trivia: It was said recently that a minority could become mayor of Boston if Menino doesn’t run again (or even if
he does). The Herald, I think, pointed out that “Boston has only had white (and male) mayors for the past 190 years.”
Curious, I looked it up and found that 190 years ago or so,
Boston was still a “town” and got its first mayor around
1822 or so, thus the above statement.

>> There was no Mayor of Boston until 1822 because up to that point Boston was still incorporated as a town. The current mayor is Thomas Menino.

Mayors since WWII: Maurice Tobin, John Kerrigan, James Curley, John Hynes, John Collins, Kevin White, Ray Flynn,
Tom Menino