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WOMEN ABOUT TOWN
Menino’s gender smackdown
BY ADAM REILLY

As she runs for mayor, one of Maura Hennigan’s big selling points is sex. Hers, that is. "Women often tend to approach things differently," Hennigan told the Phoenix last month. "They’re consensus builders. They’re not back-room-deal types" (see "What Women Want," News and Features, March 25). A key Hennigan campaign theme — she listens well, and Mayor Tom Menino doesn’t — sounds like something lifted from a John Gray book. (Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not true.) And Hennigan’s first endorsement came from — wait for it — the Women’s Campaign Fund, a group dedicated to electing pro-choice women.

So, will Boston women take the cue and rally behind Hennigan? Apparently not, at least among the city’s movers and shakers. Women for Menino (WFM), a new political-action committee that’s holding a fundraiser at the Fairmont Copley Plaza on Wednesday, April 27, has already won the allegiance of 147 women. The WFM roster reads like a who’s who of Boston’s female elite: Democratic activist and Human Rights Campaign board member Mary Breslauer; philanthropist Hilary Bacon Gabrieli; political consultant Joyce Ferriabough; banking bigwigs Heather Campion and Anne Finucane; international do-gooder Swanne Hunt; Myra Kraft, wife of New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft; union leader Janice Loux; spinmeister Collette Phillips; former state representative and current political consultant Susan Tracy; Partnership head Benaree Wiley — all, apparently, committed to keeping Boston’s mayoral incumbent in office.

Since Menino’s in his 12th year as mayor, it stands to reason that establishment figures like these — whatever their gender — are publicly supporting his candidacy. And, of course, Women for Menino may not prevent Hennigan from garnering support among less-connected female voters. Still, considering the challenge Hennigan has ahead of her, a little more sisterhood would certainly help her cause.


Issue Date: April 8 - 14, 2005
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