1998 ELECTIONS
Kennedy, Union Rally Starts Brawl
Outside the final Mass. Gov. debate between Paul Cellucci (R) and Scott
Harshbarger (D), there was another brawl. The reported source of tension
was a Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) led union rally for Harshbarger
near Boston's city hall with allegedly 5,000 electrical workers, carpenters,
bricklayers, and pipefitters. As the rally ended, the cabal made
its way to the debate a few blocks away. The swarming unionists enveloped
a small group of Cellucci supporters and incited clashes. Fistfights exploded
and campaign signs were torn up and used as weapons. A Boston Globe
photographer was attacked for taking pictures of the rumble. "I can imagine
when you stick a lot of people in such a small space that might happen,"
said Robert Haynes, Mass. AFL-CIO president. [Boston Globe 10/27/98]
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