He was The cause was metastasized lung cancer, his family said in a statement. Finkelstein cultivated a reputation as a shadowy behind-the-scenes figure, seldom granting interviews and rarely drawing attention to himself in public — all of which lent him a mystique as a pollster, campaign manager, and ruthless operative in electoral politics. He became an influential political power broker in the s who helped propel the careers of Republican senators such as James L.
Buckley N. He also fostered a generation of Republican political consultants whose careers began on his campaigns. He made a difference. He changed politics. He sought to make the world a better place, and to spread the power of freedom. He will be missed but never forgotten. He was also something of a political conundrum — especially after it was revealed in that his private life as a gay man was in sharp contrast to the views of some of the conservative firebrands he helped elect.
Ultimately, the nomination went to President Gerald R. Ford, who lost the general election to Democrat Jimmy Carter. Finkelstein was an informal adviser to the administration and managed congressional and gubernatorial campaigns across the country.
West told The Boston Globe in Not that there's anything wrong with it. It wouldn't be worth mentioning if the consultant hadn't, through most of the 40 years of that domestic partnership, worked on behalf of some of America's most rabidly homophobic politicians; if he wasn't "the architect of Jesse Helms's political rise"; if he wasn't acclaimed as "the guy who slandered the term 'liberal' in American politics"; if he hadn't worked for presidents Nixon and Reagan; helped elect the likes of George W.
All that, and more, is on Arthur Finkelstein's resume. If you haven't heard of him before, it's because he made sure you didn't. As CNN reported in "He is the stuff of Hollywood: A man who can topple even the most powerful foes, yet so secretive that few have ever seen him. Finkelstein, a Massachusetts resident, helped direct Republican strategy in 33 Senate races in alone.
Typical Finkelstein ad lines: "Call liberal Paul Wellstone. Tell him it's wrong That's Jack Reed. That's wrong. Call liberal Jack Reed The cardinal has gone. The junior senator has fallen short in his reach for the White House.
The president of Harvard has suffered self-inflicted wounds. Their rise parallels the increasing importance of their industries — healthcare, for example, entertainment, real estate, and sports. Individual philanthropists are rising up the list as corporate donors fall off it.
Others possess the clout that comes with having interests in the forever-on-the-brink Seaport, or because of their involvement in the Rose Kennedy Greenway to be built eventually where the Central Artery once stood. Who will push them forward? Maybe it will be one of these people who run our town now.
Bush walking his dogs. After all, who wants to watch a couple of Scottish terriers relieving themselves on the White House lawn? And he gives a lot of it back. It reportedly put the fix in that prevented him, along with Karp and other wealthy partners, from realizing their lifelong dream of owning the Red Sox.
At the annual fall dinner of the American Ireland Fund. On the wall at the Palm. Take Connors. After he handed over his responsibilities as president and CEO of Hill, Holliday whose chairman he remains , the veteran go-to guy might have joined his fellow power-listers who had faded away. Instead, he helped raise the money needed to nab the Democratic National Convention. Peter Meade is on that panel, too.
Church bells chimed. Men wept. In a city many of whose corporate, political, and even religious institutions have been diminished, allegiance to the Red Sox soared. And with it rose the men who run the team. Principal owner John Henry controls the money. Wonder-boy general manager Theo Epstein gets the headlines. Affable in public, Lucchino is a tough negotiator. One of the few female corporate leaders in this town a Bentley College study found that women held just 9. She chairs the board of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
Another fast-rising woman star: Verizon regional president Donna Cupelo, who has involved herself in educational issues. Those missing corporate types and the philanthropy they once controlled are also being replaced by wealthy individuals and private foundations.
Money remains a key ingredient of power in this town, of course. Many longtime power players have fallen off or tumbled down our list — some by choice, some not.
Senate President Tom Birmingham stepped down after running unsuccessfully for governor, House Speaker Tom Finneran to take a job as president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. John Silber, finally out as BU chancellor, is off the list.
Others left under duress — WBUR general manager Jane Christo amid allegations of mismanagement, for example, and Putnam president Lawrence Lasser during an investigation of illegal trading. Senator John Kerry is still on our list, but much diminished; never known for his attention to his home state, Kerry seems to remain distracted by the dubious prospect of another White House run.
A few one-time power listers have simply left. Oedipus retired as the influential program director of WBCN. Most of those things, these days, are controlled by people somewhere else.
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