Raymond Flynn
Raymond Flynn | |
---|---|
Robert M. Isaac | |
Succeeded by | William Althaus |
Boston City Councilor | |
In office January 1978 – January 2, 1984 | |
Preceded by | Louise Day Hicks and John J. Kerrigan |
Succeeded by | N/A (number of at-large seats reduced) |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives | |
In office January 1975 – January 1978 | |
Preceded by | Royal L. Bolling and Dorris Bunte |
Succeeded by | Dorris Bunte |
Constituency | 7th Suffolk |
In office January 1971 – January 1975 Serving with Michael F. Flaherty Sr. | |
Succeeded by | Elaine Noble |
Constituency | 6th Suffolk |
Personal details | |
Born | Raymond Leo Flynn July 22, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Catherine Coyne |
Children | 6 (including Ed) |
Parent(s) | Stephen Flynn Lillian Kirby Flynn |
Alma mater | Providence College (BA) Harvard University (MA) |
Raymond Leo Flynn (born July 22, 1939) is an American politician who served as the
Flynn was an
Flynn was elected mayor of Boston
Flynn resigned as mayor in 1993 in order to accept an appointment by President Bill Clinton as ambassador to the Holy See. He expanded the position's mission to involve participation in addressing problem areas around the world. During his tenure as ambassador, he also encountered some controversy. In 1998, Flynn unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives. Flynn later served as president of Catholic Alliance, a nonpartisan Catholic advocacy group.
Early life and education
Flynn was born July 22, 1939, the son of Stephen Flynn and Lillian Flynn (
As a kid, Flynn worked as a "ball boy" for the Boston Celtics basketball team during their home games at Boston Garden.[6] He was a three-sport star athlete at South Boston High School.[2]
Flynn attended
Later in life, while a Boston city councilor, Flynn would receive a master's degree in education from Harvard University in 1981.[1][2]
Early professions
In April 1963, he was selected by the
Flynn enlisted in the
In his early political involvement, Flynn was a confidante and political supporter of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, who was also a resident of South Boston. Flynn worked as a personal family assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey during Humphrey's campaign in the 1968 presidential election.[1]
Massachusetts House of Representatives (1971–1978)
Capitalizing on his local sports hero celebrity,
Education policy and opposition to desegregation busing
Flynn was an opponent of court ordered
In 1974, Flynn filed legislation to repeal a state law which required that children attend school. During his 1983 mayoral campaign, he came to call this proposal a mistake.[17] Flynn was a supporter of providing more state funding to special needs students in schools.[2]
Ban on government funding of abortion
Flynn co-authored a bill to end government funding of
The law was undercut in 1981, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that women with Medicaid eligibility had a constitutionally-protected entitlement to receive funding through the program for their abortions.[22]
Unsuccessful 1975 campaigns for city office
In March 1975, Flynn announced himself as a candidate for the 1975 Boston mayoral election.[17] However, he withdrew in June after struggling to fundraise and instead launched his candidacy for the Boston City Council. He would lose his race for city council that November,[17] falling a mere 1,467 votes shy of election.[23]
Boston City Council (1978–1984)
Flynn was elected to the Boston City Council in November 1977.[17] Flynn would be reelected in 1979 and 1981. In 1981, Flynn was the top vote-getter by a large margin.[2] On the council, Flynn served as chairman of the Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Development, Committee on Government Relations and Government Finance, as well as the Special Committee on School Matters.[1]
Peter Dreier would later describe Flynn as having transitioned as a city councilor, "from a parochial neighborhood politician with progressive leanings to a crusader with citywide appeal."[24] while on the Boston City Council. Drier would describe Flynn as having been an "18-hour-a-day workaholic", and the "hardest working City Councilor". He had a reputation for regularly attending public meetings.[2]
As a city councilor, Flynn opposed rate increases by
Flynn supported the potential adoption of
In October 1979, Flynn, together with Joseph F. Timilty, rescued a Black man from a threatening encounter with a White mob on the Boston Common.[17]
1983 mayoral campaign
In April 1983, Flynn announced his candidacy for mayor of Boston.
Flynn's campaign received no significant financial support from major sectors of the city's business community.[2] Flynn outright refused to accept campaign donations from developers with projects pending before city agencies, or lawyers of such developers.[2] Both the Flynn and King campaigns had low expenditures compared to the nearly $2 million campaign that outgoing mayor Kevin White and the political machine supporting him had spent on his candidacies in the 1975 and 1979 mayoral elections. Flynn's campaign spent roughly $400,000, while King's spent less than $350,000.[15]
Dudley Clendinen wrote that Flynn had worked to establish himself as a champion of the poor and elderly and to appeal across ethnic lines to
Primary election
Flynn first announced his candidacy in front of a public housing project, pledging that he would be a "people's mayor".[2] He was viewed as an underdog at the start of his campaign, due to a lack of funding, a political organization, or connections to the business or media establishments.[2]
Flynn and King had both shaped the narrative of the debate during the hotly-contested primary, successfully creating a "downtown versus the neighborhoods" narrative, with Flynn and King taking the side of being in support of the city's neighborhoods. A major item of debate was linkage, a fee that would be placed on downtown developers to raise funds for affordable housing. Flynn and King placed in the primary above candidates who were perceived as more representative of "downtown" interests. Coinciding with the primary, voters also strongly approved non-binding referendums in favor of a linkage policy and the creation of neighborhood councils. Both referendums had been supported by the group Massachusetts Fair Share.[2] Flynn and King were the only two candidates that imposing linkage fees.[25]
During the primary, the city's progressive activists were largely sharply divided between Flynn and King's candidacies. Flynn benefited from grassroots support.[2]
General election
In the general election, Flynn received the
In the election, both Flynn and King worked to build progressive coalitions, and both pledged to dedicate themselves to working across ethnic divides in the city. In the five weeks leading up to the general election, the two candidates held more than fifty local neighborhood debates.[15]
The campaign was peaceful, and only a handful of isolated racial violence incidents occurred during it.[15]
After his election, his mayoral transition effort was headed by John F. Bok.[28]
Mayoralty (1984–1993)
Flynn served as mayor from his inauguration on January 2, 1984
In 1998, Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover of
At the time that Flynn was preparing to leave office, in an article published in The Christian Science Monitor, George B. Merry described Flynn as a mayor whose "hands-on" approach had made him, "one of the most visible mayors in Boston history." He considered Flynn's leadership to have delivered mixed results. Merry described Flynn's leadership-style as being heavily focused on neighborhood-level quality of life issues,[35] writing,
NO Boston mayor in the past half-century has been more neighborhood-oriented than Raymond Flynn. In his 9-1/2 years at City Hall he has directed his attention and the city's resources toward improving life for its citizens. Unlike predecessors John Hynes, John Collins, and Kevin White, who concentrated on changing the physical face of Boston with new buildings, Mayor Flynn has focused on improving municipal services and on people things like street lighting and playgrounds.[35]
General politics
Reelection campaigns
Flynn was reelected mayor in 1987 and 1991, winning more than two-thirds of the vote each time.[2][17] In his reelections, he won a higher vote share in Black and Hispanic areas of the city than he did in White areas.[2]
In 1987, Flynn carried every ward of the city except for in his native South Boston. His failure to carry South Boston was perhaps due to his promise weeks before the election to desegregate all-white Boston Housing Authority developments in South Boston.[2] At the time of his reelection, Flynn had attained an image of being un-corrupt, with political consultant Michael Goldman remarking at the time, "The most important thing Flynn has done is to have been someone who could govern without corruption. Even those who are not satisfied with Flynn feel he has been honest." Goldman also noted that Flynn had also maintained an image of being a populist well-connected to the city's blue-collar workers.[36]
Flynn's 1991 campaign for a third term came despite a 1981 campaign promise to only serve two terms.[37] In his 1991 campaign, he ran a low-profile campaign that he touted as being "grassroots", and ran no television or radio advertisements. He centered his candidacy on ties to the city's neighborhoods and his successes in balancing the city's budget.[38]
State, national, and international politics
Flynn was an outspoken critic of the cuts that President Ronald Reagan championed making to federal revenue sharing, urban development grants, and housing and job assistance programs.[39]
Flynn considered running in the
Flynn became a national leader on urban matters.[40] In 1987, as chair of the United States Conference of Mayors' Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness, Flynn advocated for the passage of the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act.[41] Flynn served as president of the United States Conference of Mayors during 1991–92.[42][43] In this role, Flynn challenged the theories of some pundits that cities were becoming economically obsolete due to the rise of "edge city" suburbanization, by arguing that "as cities go, so goes America."[2]
Flynn visited South Africa several times to see anti-apartheid figure Nelson Mandela when he was in prison.[44] In June 1990, four months after Mandela's release from prison, Flynn welcomed him to Boston on a trip Mandela took visiting many cities in the United States.[45]
Ahead of the
Despite opposition to
In the late-1980s, Flynn partnered with community housing organizations to draft the federal Community Housing Partnership Act. This was then sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg and Congressman Joseph Kennedy, and received the endorsements of organizations such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, National Low-Income Housing Coalition.[48][49] The bill was ultimately incorporated into the broader Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, which was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in October 1990.[50] The act provided federal funding to community-based organizations to assist them in the construction and renovation of affordable housing.[48]
Economic matters
Community reinvestment agreement with banks
In 1989, two studies, including one by the
Fiscal matters
When Flynn took office, the city had a $40 million deficit. Flynn was able to balance the city's budget each year he was in office and improved the fiscal controls of the city.
In his first term as mayor, Flynn dealt with a drastic cut in federal funds allocated to Boston.
During his mayoralty, Boston
Revenue package
To address the city's deficit, upon taking office, Flynn worked to receive additional state aid and state legislature authorization to raise new local taxes.[2] The state, at the time, viewed the city government as wasteful and inefficient.[2] Flynn needed the help of the city's business community to convince the state. Particularly the business community's watchdog group, the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.[2] In order to convince the business community that the Flynn administration was going to spend new revenues in a cost-effective manner, he recruited business community members to top positions in the municipal budget and treasury departments, and also created an advisory committee on management and budget operations that featured representatives from the business community.[2] Flynn heeded the advice of this advisory committee, and "opened the books" on the city's fiscal situation, something that his immediate predecessor, Kevin White, had refused to do himself.[2] Ultimately, the Municipal Research Bureau gave its approval to Flynn's revenue package and lobbied for it.[2]
Flynn also met across the state with individuals and groups such as local officials, business groups, and trade unions in order to persuade them to lobby their own legislators to support the state legislation he was seeking.[2] Flynn made the argument that Boston's economic and fiscal health was critical to that of all of Massachusetts. He characterized Boston as being a generator of jobs and state sales tax revenue, as well as the home to institutions which benefited the entire state.[2]
In 1984, the initial revenue package that Flynn championed was defeated in the state legislature.[2][51] In 1985, Flynn proposed and lobbied for a revised revenue package.[51][52] This revenue package passed, and was signed into law by Governor Dukakis.[2][53]
Labor matters
Flynn created the "Boston jobs" program, requiring that developers that obtained city permits to hire Boston residents for half of all their construction jobs, minorities for one quarter of all their construction jobs, and women for one-tenth of all their construction jobs.[2]
When Boston hotel owners and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 26 were in conflict, and looked headed towards a long and tense strike in 1985, Flynn had his police chief privately inform hotel owners that they could not expect to rely the Boston Police Department to protect strikebreakers or preserve order outside and within hotel establishments. This action of Flynn helped weaken the resolve of the hotel owners, who settled with Local 26, netting the union a significant victory.[2]
When Flynn traveled to southwestern
Education and childcare
In 1989, Flynn spearheaded the creation of a policy which requires that new commercial developments in the city's downtown provide childcare services on-site or otherwise fund resources for off-site childcare spaces. However, the policy would, for decades, prove difficult to enforce due to the fact that the policy did not provide a clear definition of the amounts that developers needed to pay for off-site childcare spaces. This was addressed in 2022, when Mayor Michelle Wu signed an executive order outlining a formula to determine the amount of these payments.[54]
In 1993, George B. Merry wrote that while Flynn had "vastly upgraded" the city's public school system as mayor, at the time of Flynn's departure from the mayoralty, the school district, "appear[ed] to be facing an uncertain future."[35]
In July 1991, Flynn won a fight to turn
Let me acknowledge that taking the right to vote away from people is not a pleasant thing for me. It's a big issue in the minority community. I know it. I still hear it...and it's a very valid concern.[57]
Flynn also conceded that the appointed school board had failed in terms of accountability, remarking in 1993,
When I argued for an appointed school board, I spoke about the power of accountability...Accountability was the critical element of change. That's how it should work. But it hasn't worked that way. It's time to change that.[57]
In 1993, Flynn wrote an open letter to those seeking to run in the 1993 Boston mayoral election to succeed him which pronounced his regret for having changed the city's school board to an appointed board, and which expressed his preference for reverting it back to an elected one. This was to no avail, and Boston remains the only municipality in Massachusetts without an elected school board.[57]
Public safety and law enforcement
In 1985, Flynn appointed Francis Roache as the city's police commissioner.[58] Roache was a childhood friend of Flynn, and would be one of his closet associates during his mayoralty.[31]
Flynn's administration funded neighborhood watch groups.[2]
In 1990, Flynn received strong criticism from Black leaders over the city police's handling of the investigation into the murder of Carol Stuart, including the arrest and intensive search of William Bennett.[17] Flynn had instructed for a citywide manhunt for murderer after the killing.[59] Decades later, in 2023, then-mayor Michelle Wu apologized on behalf of the city for the impact that police conduct in the investigation Stuart's murder had upon the African-American community in the city, especially in Mission Hill. Her apology was directly addressed to Bennett as well as Alan Swanson, both of whom she acknowledged had been wrongly treated as suspects.[60]
In response to concerns over the police department (including those stemming from the investigation into Carol Stuart's murder), in May 1991, Flynn empaneled the St. Clair Commission, headed by James D. St. Clair.[31] In January 1992, the St. Clair Commission released its report, which was critical of the Boston Police Department for mismanagement, and urged against reappointing Commissioner Roache when his term expired that April.[31] Flynn appointed William Bratton to serve as the city's new police commissioner.[17]
At the end of Flynn's tenure, in 1993, George B. Merry observed that crime in the city remained "a continuing problem".[35]
Racial relations
Before Flynn took office, Boston had seen a very high level of racial tensions in the 1970s. While it would be a mistake to suggest Boston has been free of racial tensions during Flynn's years as mayor, his leadership has addressed the needs of minorities, including not only blacks but the fast-growing Hispanic and Asian populations. But the problem lingers.[35]
Early into his mayoralty, Flynn signaled his support for racially integrating the city's neighborhoods when he directly assisted a number of black households with moving into a public housing development located in a neighborhood with a majority white working-class population.[33] During Flynn's mayoralty, the City of Boston regained control over the Boston Housing Authority, which had previously been in court receivership. Weeks before the 1987 mayoral election, Flynn publicized a plan to desegregate all-white housing developments of the Boston Housing Authority located in South Boston.[2] In 1988, the city of Boston reached a formal agreement with the federal government to integrate public housing in South Boston.[17]
A 1987 poll published by The Boston Globe found that the Boston residents were expressing increasingly optimistic outlooks on the state of race relations in the city. Many of the city's politicians, while questioning whether the public was correct in such an assessment, expressed the belief that this sentiment was reflective of the public's perception of Flynn's leadership in regards to race relations.[61]
Urban development
Flynn took office amid a period of
When Flynn assumed office, the federal government was greatly decreasing federal funding for urban housing, job training, and economic development programs. Boston had been reliant on federal funding for these uses for the preceding quarter-century. Flynn looked to the private sector. He worked to use
During Flynn's mayoralty, the city had a strong development market,[2] and he was regarded to be a "pro-development" mayor.[37]
During Flynn's mayoralty, major projects included the new Boston City Hospital complex.[2] The city also created what was its first long-term capital plan for fixing its streets, infrastructure, school structures, and for creating new precinct stations and recreation centers.[2] The city also significantly improved its parks and recreation centers.[2]
Flynn focused on addressing the quality of life in neighborhoods, as well as on addressing gentrification.[2]
The city built what was an unprecedented number of new units of affordable housing during Flynn's mayoralty.[2] Flynn's administration successfully overcame the political forces of the city's real estate industry to put in place a policy that doubled the linkage fee funds that downtown developers were required to provide to neighborhood housing funds. Over the course of his mayoralty, this fund received over $70 million, and helped in the city's creation of over 8,000 units of affordable housing.[2][24]
After a five-year campaign by Flynn and community activists, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce agreed to hand over to community-based non profits and tenant organizations a total of 2,000 HUD-subsidized apartments located in roughly 70 buildings that had been abandoned by property owners.[2] Additionally, Boston had success in addressing problems in troubled HUD public housing projects. Clinton's HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros, later decided to change HUD policy to replicate this.[2]
Flynn successful fights to enact rent control laws and strong tenants' rights laws put him at odds with the
Flynn also championed
Boston's development director Steve Coyle oversaw the institution of controversial "downzoning" growth management safeguards aimed at combatting the "Manhattanization" of the city's historic downtown and neighborhoods.[2]
Flynn's administration collaborated on development with
Resignation and succession
In 1993, Flynn resigned during his third term as mayor when he was appointed by Clinton to serve as
Upon the announcement of Flynn's nomination, it became anticipated that then-Boston City Council President Thomas Menino was, per the city charter, going to assume the office of "acting mayor" upon Flynn's expected resignation.[67] Flynn had had a longtime friendship with Menino. However, their relationship was noted to have become somewhat terser during the period in which Flynn was preparing to hand over the office to Menino.[68] One cause for their rift was that, after Menino had promised he would appoint 100 new police officers when he took office, Flynn beat him to the chase and did so himself, which angered Menino.[69]
When Flynn resigned on July 12, 1993, Menino became acting mayor.[69] Menino would go on to win the 1993 Boston mayoral election, becoming mayor.[70]
Ambassador to the Holy See (1993–1997)
Flynn served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See from September 2, 1993, through September 20, 1997.[71] He was the first member of the Democratic Party to hold this post.[41] He was appointed on July 1, 1993, and presented his credentials on September 2, 1993.[71]
Clinton had Flynn expand the role of the post's mission. Flynn not only represented the United States to the Holy See, but also represented the United States in imperiled areas around the world on matters of
At the time he accepted the position of ambassador, Flynn made it known that he intended to eventually return to politics, likely running for another public office.[35] While ambassador, Flynn considered running for governor of Massachusetts in 1994 to unseat incumbent Republican Bill Weld. However, Flynn announced in April 1994 that he would not run in the 1994 gubernatorial election.[73]
During his time as ambassador, the campaign committee for Flynn's mayoral candidacies was subject to federal and state investigation.[74][75] In February 1996, Flynn plead to having misused campaign funds during his tenure as mayor and agreed to repay $12,500 in funds to his campaign committee. The state of Massachusetts' attorney general was considering bringing a civil lawsuit against Flynn regarding these funds.[75] Douglas deRusha, the former bookkeeper for Flynn's mayoral campaign committee, went to prison for embezzlement.[74] Coincidentally, the same month that Flynn plead to having misused campaign funds, an unrelated investigation resulted in Flynn's former top-aide during his mayoralty, Joseph Fisher, pleading guilty for having failed to report more than $51,000 that he had received as bribes and illegal favors during his seven years serving special assistant to Flynn during Flynn's mayoralty.[75] Both investigations generated negative publicity for Flynn.[74]
In early 1997, eying leaving his post, Flynn made an effort to become a university athletic director, reaching out to Boston-area universities such as Northeastern University. His mayoral successor, Thomas Menino, attempted to help persuade Boston-area universities to hire Flynn for such a position. This effort was to no avail, however. Shortly thereafter, Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who had already expressed interest in appointing Flynn to an unpaid position on a state commission, expressed interest in potentially offering Flynn a paid position in his gubernatorial administration.[76] In early September 1997, Flynn shared his intent to run for governor of Massachusetts in 1998. Two weeks later, Flynn announced his intent to resign his post as ambassador.[74] Flynn left his post on September 20, 1997.[71]
On October 3, 1997, The Boston Globe published an article which both accused Flynn of having been a sub-par diplomat as ambassador and of having had a longtime drinking problem.
1998 congressional campaign
Following his service as ambassador, Flynn considered running for governor of Massachusetts in 1998.[32] Flynn made public in January 1998 his intent to later that year launch his candidacy.[77] However, obstacles, such as a lack of financial campaign reserves and the political challenge of running for governor in the state of Massachusetts with a strong anti-abortion stance like his, dissuaded him.[32] Another factor that made his candidacy challenging was the perceived difficulty of winning statewide with a political identity so strongly tied to the city of Boston. Flynn's ambition of being elected governor was regarded as being a longshot.[34]
Instead of running for governor, after
Flynn was the only anti-abortion candidate of the ten running in the primary, and his campaign advertising utilized photos of him with Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa.[80] Flynn had run a quiet grassroots campaign operation.[80] Flynn was endorsed by the local chapters of the International Longshoremen's Association and Iron Workers unions.[34] Flynn had been regarded as an early front-runner in the primary,[34][80] and private and public opinion polls had showed him to be leading.[34] However, polls show that Capuano enjoyed a last-minute rise in support that resulted in his victory over Flynn.[80]
Ceci Connolly of
Later career
In 2001, for several weeks Flynn openly explored a possible run in that year's special election to succeed Joe Moakley as the congressman from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district. However, in mid-June 2001, Flynn ruled out such a run and threw his support behind a potential candidacy by State Senator Stephen Lynch,[81] who ultimately ran and won the election.[82]
While he has not run for office again himself, Flynn subsequently maintained some involvement in politics and related matters. In 2004, Flynn unsuccessfully pursued litigation to reverse the
Flynn involved himself in media after concluding his career in public office. In 1998, he had a role as a radio host on WRKO in Boston.[91] In September 2014, he became a regular contributor to The Pilot, the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.[92] In February 2017, Flynn became a columnist for the Boston Herald.[93]
In 1999, Flynn became president of Catholic Alliance, a
In 2013, Flynn voiced his public agreement with the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council's position in its lawsuit against a developer and the city. The neighborhood council was suing over what it contended was a wrongful grant of a
Personal life
Flynn is married to Catherine (née Coyne), who often goes by "Kathy". They have six children: Ray Jr., Edward, Julie, Nancy, Katie, and Maureen.
While serving as mayor, Flynn played himself in the 1989 Cheers episode "The Stork Brings A Crane".[104] In the episode, Flynn has his entourage take away Cliff Clavin, who writes to Flynn once a week.[105]
Flynn was an avid runner who made headlines in 1984 when he ran in the Boston Marathon (with a finishing time of 4:23:54[106]) and the New York City Marathon (finishing in 3:59:46[107]).[108]
In March 2007, Flynn was
In May 2007, Flynn joined the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, who also awarded him the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters.[110]
In September 2008, Flynn was hospitalized after he collapsed at a Boston-area speaking engagement.
Political views
During his political career, Flynn was regarded to be an "economic liberal" and "cultural conservative".[114] Over the course of his political career, Flynn's positions on some matters remained consistent, while others evolved. Flynn has numerous times endorsed Republican candidates in closely contested elections, including George W. Bush in the 2000 president election, Scott Brown in 2010 and 2012 senate elections, and Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.[115]
In his early political career, Flynn prominently opposed court-ordered school desegregation busing.
Honors
In February 2016, the Boston Marine Industrial Park was renamed the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park.[117] A nearby bridge was also renamed in Flynn's honor.[118] In May 2017, Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker dedicated Flynn Cruiseport Boston, located in the Port of Boston.[119][120]
Flynn has received a number of civic awards.
Electoral history
State representative
- 1970
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Michael F. Flaherty Sr. | 5,083 | 26.4 | |
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn | 2,041 | 19.6 | |
Democratic | James F. Condon | 3,104 | 16.1 | |
Democratic | Joseph F. Toomey | 1,878 | 9.8 | |
Democratic | David J. Keefe | 1,566 | 8.1 | |
Democratic | William J. Grant | 1,167 | 6.1 | |
Democratic | John J. Driscoll Jr. | 1,113 | 5.8 | |
Democratic | Thomas J. Sullivan | 691 | 3.6 | |
Democratic | John J. O'Callaghan | 333 | 1.7 | |
Democratic | Donald W. Mello | 228 | 1.5 | |
Democratic | John V. Kazarian | 259 | 1.3 | |
Total votes | 19,259 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Michael F. Flaherty Sr. | 10,834 | 52.4 | |
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn | 9,824 | 47.6 | |
Total votes | 100 |
- 1972
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (incumbent) | 4,710 | 33.4 | |
Democratic | Michael F. Flaherty Sr. (incumbent) | 4,418 | 31.3 | |
Democratic | Robert M. O'Brein | 3,310 | 23.5 | |
Democratic | Paul T. O'Leary | 635 | 4.5 | |
Democratic | Ronald F. Bassil | 576 | 4.1 | |
Democratic | Ali J. Fiumedoro | 175 | 1.2 | |
Democratic | Pa J. L. Rosemond | 144 | 1.0 | |
Democratic | Geoffirey P. Morris | 128 | 0.9 | |
Total votes | 14,096 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Michael F. Flaherty Sr. (incumbent) | 10,660 | 48.3 | |
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (incumbent) | 10,113 | 45.8 | |
Republican | Ernest A. Fragopulos | 1,305 | 5.9 | |
Total votes | 22,078 | 100 |
- 1974
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (redistricted incumbent) | 3,526 | 100 | |
Total votes | 3,526 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (redistricted incumbent) | 5,761 | 100 | |
Total votes | 5,761 | 100 |
- 1976
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (incumbent) | 3,988 | 75.9 | |
Democratic | Gerard F. Burke | 1,265 | 24.1 | |
Total votes | 5,253 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn (incumbent) | 6,817 | 100 | |
Total votes | 6,817 | 100 |
City council
1975 Boston City Council election | ||
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Candidates | Preliminary Election[125] | General Election[23] |
Votes | Votes | |
Louise Day Hicks (incumbent) | 46,030 | 82,050 |
Christopher A. Iannella (incumbent) | 35,793 | 71,484 |
James Michael Connolly (incumbent) | 25,536 | 71,157 |
Albert L. O'Neil (incumbent)
|
38,203 | 66,583 |
Lawrence S. DiCara (incumbent) | 32,119 | 62,247 |
John J. Kerrigan | 35,117 | 60,581 |
Frederick C. Langone (incumbent) | 27,579 | 60,238 |
Patrick F. McDonough (incumbent) | 22,464 | 57,968 |
Joseph M. Tierney (incumbent) | 33,700 | 57,003 |
Raymond L. Flynn | 27,754 | 55,536 |
Gerald F. O'Leary (incumbent)
|
33,653 | 55,390 |
Jack Cole | 22,542 | 53,176 |
Clarence E. Dilday | 14,774 | 34,531 |
Franx X. Curley | 14,661 | 32,339 |
Thomas M. Connelly Jr. | 14,345 | 28,433 |
Thomas A. McDonough | 14,775 | 24,847 |
Edward Brooks | 10,719 | 22,959 |
William T. Donovan | 8,557 | 18,106 |
Joseph A. McCarthy | 8,127 | |
Robert J. Feeney | 8,047 | |
Salvatore LaRosa | 7,365 | |
Reba Williams | 5,356 | |
Albert DiNicola | 5,135 | |
Ralph M. Cotellesso | 5,121 | |
Arthur Michael Pascal | 4,409 | |
Robert P. Kane | 3,832 | |
Jacqueline Y. LeBeau | 3,387 | |
Alfred Smith | 3,320 | |
Sean M. Harvey | 3,182 | |
Victor Naum Themo | 2,084 | |
John Hillson | 1,713 | |
All others | 1 | 1 |
1977 Boston City Council election | ||
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Candidates | Preliminary Election[126] | General Election[127] |
Votes | Votes | |
James Michael Connolly (incumbent) | 22,212 | 37,479 |
Raymond Flynn | 19,248 | 35,757 |
Christopher A. Iannella (incumbent) | 21,577 | 35,682 |
Dapper O'Neil (incumbent) | 20,875 | 35,543 |
Lawrence DiCara (incumbent) | 19,048 | 32,232 |
Joseph M. Tierney (incumbent) | 17,500 | 31,913 |
Rosemarie Sansone | 12,954 | 30,531 |
Frederick C. Langone (incumbent) | 15,156 | 30,268 |
Patrick F. McDonough (incumbent) | 15,868 | 30,205 |
Louise Day Hicks (incumbent) | 19,862 | 30,058 |
Gerald O'Leary | 14,979 | 23,868 |
Gerard P. McHale | 12,753 | 20,610 |
John J. Kerrigan (incumbent) | 11,810 | 20,045 |
Arnett L. Waters | 10,589 | 18,109 |
Lawrence E. Blacke | 9,801 | 16,899 |
Bruce Bolling | 8,634 | 15,518 |
Stephen C. Farrell | 8,505 | 13,980 |
Paul J. Ellison | 7,919 | 11,542 |
William T. Donovan | 7,198 | |
Elizabeth Buckley | 6,886 | |
Robert Whitey McGrail | 6,740 | |
Harold L. O'Brien | 5,869 | |
James J. Tobin | 4,907 | |
Polly Jane Halfkenny | 4,380 | |
John T. Cuddy | 4,288 | |
Celia M. Sniffin | 3,965 | |
Diane Jacobs | 3,827 | |
Norma Walsh Gramer | 3,559 | |
Richard Hird | 2,365 | |
George R. Geller | 1,675 |
1979 Boston City Council election | ||
---|---|---|
Candidates | Preliminary Election[128] | General Election[129] |
Votes | Votes | |
Lawrence DiCara (incumbent) | 42,339 | 69,102 |
Christopher A. Iannella (incumbent) | 45,184 | 69,069 |
Raymond Flynn (incumbent) | 45,648 | 66,662 |
Frederick C. Langone (incumbent) | 48,063 | 64,873 |
Dapper O'Neil (incumbent) | 48,781 | 60,846 |
Joseph M. Tierney (incumbent) | 43,759 | 58,674 |
John W. Sears | 41,108 | 58,205 |
Rosmarie E. Sansone (incumbent) | 46,391 | 57,552 |
Patrick F. McDonough (incumbent) | 34,646 | 55,123 |
Louise Day Hicks (incumbent) | 44,659 | 54,714 |
James T. Brett | 34,941 | 51,767 |
Terence P. McDermott | 30,124 | 39,882 |
Barbara A. Ware | 19,519 | 33,951 |
Stephen C. Farrell | 20,173 | 27,038 |
Charles Yancey | 14,487 | 22,301 |
Edward Brooks | 19,772 | 24,165 |
Richard M. Lane | 17,424 | 17,771 |
David Joseph McKay | 12,873 | 15,981 |
Jeannette L. Tracy | 11,711 | |
Phyllis Igoe | 9,205 | |
Stephen Michael Cidlevich | 8,645 | |
Eugene A. Cavicchi | 6,626 | |
Peter K. Hadley | 5,187 |
1981 Boston City Council election | ||
---|---|---|
Candidates | Preliminary election[130] | General election[131] |
Votes | Votes | |
Raymond Flynn (incumbent) | 31,898 | 53,136 |
Christopher A. Iannella (incumbent) | 25,462 | 44,621 |
Dapper O'Neil (incumbent) | 24,240 | 40,474 |
Frederick C. Langone (incumbent) | 23,000 | 39,780 |
Joseph M. Tierney (incumbent) | 17,649 | 35,185 |
Michael J. McCormack | 14,178 | 33,861 |
Terence P. McDermott | 11,981 | 31,707 |
Maura Hennigan | 14,325 | 31,637 |
Bruce Bolling | 15,273 | 30,672 |
James M. Kelly | 14,941 | 30,079 |
Patrick F. McDonough (incumbent) | 17,165 | 29,591 |
Edmund McNamara | 12,007 | 29,301 |
David Scondras | 11,616 | 28,571 |
Charles Yancey | 12,378 | 27,007 |
Francis X. Coppinger | 11,034 | 21,675 |
Craig Lankhorst | 10,301 | 20,769 |
Pamela J. Gilman | 10,070 | 14,776 |
Gerard P. McHale | 10,407 | 14,173 |
Joseph W. Casper | 9,906 | |
Frederick T. Scopa | 9,444 | |
John F. Melia | 8,788 | |
Stephen G. Michaels | 8,325 | |
Brian Hickey | 8,222 | |
John P. Grady | 7,855 | |
Richard B. Hogan | 7,794 | |
Edward M. McCormack | 7,610 | |
William G. Broderick | 7,134 | |
Joseph E. Maher | 6,269 | |
Maureen Craven Slade | 5,759 | |
Althea Garrison | 5,442 | |
Joseph T. Fitzpatrick | 3,947 | |
David F. Burnes | 3,784 | |
David Alan Mittell Jr. | 3,660 | |
Francis X. Goode | 3,227 | |
Thomas P. Casserly | 3,005 | |
Warren I. Brown | 3,001 | |
John S. MacDonald | 2,881 | |
Edward J. DeSantis | 2,688 | |
John B'Smith III | 1,936 | |
John K. Rees | 1,791 |
Mayoral
1983 Boston mayoral election | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidates | Preliminary election[132] | General election[133] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Raymond Flynn | 48,118 | 28.86 | 128,578 | 65.07 |
Mel King | 47,848 | 28.70 | 69,015 | 34.93 |
David Finnegan | 41,657 | 24.99 | ||
Lawrence DiCara | 15,148 | 9.09 | ||
Dennis J. Kearney | 10,992 | 6.59 | ||
Frederick C. Langone | 2,262 | 1.36 | ||
Bob Kiley | 316 | 0.19 | ||
Michael Gelber | 207 | 0.12 | ||
Eloise Linger | 168 | 0.10 |
1987 Boston mayoral election | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidates | Preliminary election[134] | General election[135] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Raymond Flynn (incumbent) | 42,366 | 70.39 | 63,714 | 67.47 |
Joseph M. Tierney | 16,257 | 27.01 | 30,714 | 32.52 |
Joel San Juan | 1,083 | 1.08 | ||
Richard A. Black | 484 | 0.80 |
1991 Boston mayoral election | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidates | Preliminary election[136] | General election[137] | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Raymond Flynn (incumbent) | 43,123 | 67.29 | 63,582 | 74.58 |
Edward J. Doherty | 12,281 | 19.16 | 21,659 | 25.41 |
Graylan Ellis-Hagler | 8,682 | 13.55 |
Congressional
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Michael E. Capuano
|
19,446 | 22.9 | |
Democratic | Raymond L. Flynn | 14,839 | 17.5 | |
Democratic | George Bachrach | 12,157 | 14.3 | |
Democratic | John T. Connor | 11,092 | 13.1 | |
Democratic | Marjorie O'Neill Clapprood | 10,446 | 12.3 | |
Democratic | Christopher F. Gabrieli | 5,740 | 6.8 | |
Democratic | Charles Calvin Yancey | 4,437 | 5.2 | |
Democratic | Susan M. Tracy | 2,858 | 3.4 | |
Democratic | Thomas M. Keane, Jr. | 2,150 | 2.5 | |
Democratic | Alex Rodriguez | 1,802 | 2.1 | |
Write-in
|
All others | 21 | 0.0 | |
Total votes | 84,988 | 100 |
College basketball statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | STL | BLK | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1960–61 | Providence | 28 | .401 | .765 | 1.4 | — | — | 5.8 | ||
1961–62 | Providence | 26 | .451 | .755 | 3.0 | — | — | 12.8 | ||
1962–63 | Providence | 28 | .497 | .797 | 2.4 | — | — | 18.9 | ||
Career | 82 | .464 | .777 | 2.3 | — | — | 12.5 |
Source:[139]
Bibliography
Flynn is the co-author of two books:
- Flynn, Ray; ISBN 0-312-26801-7.
- Flynn, Ray; Moore, Robin; Vrabel, James (2001). John Paul II: A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man. ISBN 0-312-26681-2.
See also
- 1971–1972 Massachusetts legislature
- 1973–1974 Massachusetts legislature
- 1974–1975 Massachusetts legislature
- 1975–1976 Massachusetts legislature
- 1977–1978 Massachusetts legislature
- Timeline of Boston, 1980s–1990s
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External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Guide to the Mayor Raymond L. Flynn records at cityofboston.gov
- Ray Flynn biography at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology