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Ex-mayor’s run raises questions

Some Democrats suspect Sheets is playing spoiler in 10th District race

James Sheets was mayor of Quincy for 12 years. James Sheets was mayor of Quincy for 12 years.
By Brian C. Mooney
Globe Staff / September 6, 2010

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James A. Sheets has campaigned for Congress before and lost. That was 32 years ago. He last ran for office nine years ago when he was denied by 17 votes an extension of his 12-year reign as mayor of Quincy. Now 75, he has shed his lifelong Democratic Party affiliation to run for Congress again, this time as an independent, ... (Full article: 1086 words)

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