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Sam Yoon Edged Out in Mayoral Primary Election

Thu, 09/24/2009 - 07:07

This past Tuesday, Boston held a preliminary election.  The two top vote getters - Tom Menino (51%) and Michael Flaherty (24%) - will face off in the November Runoff election for Mayor.  Yoon came in with a respectable 21% of the votes.


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Do you know who's following you on twitter? Lessons in tweeting from the 2009 Boston Mayoral Candidates Race

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 13:33

Boston Herald reported yesterday that in the contested Boston Mayoral Candidates Race,

Mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty took a leap into the high-tech world of Twitter and inadvertantly landed deep in cyberspace’s seedy underworld of hookers and sex-seeking swingers.

Among the Twitter “friends” Flaherty was following yesterday were “BostonEscorts,” “BostonSexClub” and several flesh-peddlers looking for “single” and “cute” guys.


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