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{* * ~, | | TEAURDER ON THE The sultish ways of the New Alliance Party by Sean Flynn Fa 1981 mambers of the New paren Le MER UTM y P cialist, third-party. ment, try to force thei\way into top Spy mangsieoge t+ Arro campaign for Boston 001 Committee, the first time a Latino is\ running for city-wide office. Arroyo aides, suspicious of » saad the newcomers#zeal;.drum them sout, and Arroyo refuses the party’s official endorsement. Two years later, Arroyo runs again and NAP members are again barred from the vow campaign. SOSTON'S LARGEST WEEKLY organizational positions in Felix. a! perce ecee ss ner rome pe tr ‘ , ‘ 1986: NAP-backed “Rainbow Slate” candidates run for state- delegate seats at half a dozen Boston-area Democratic caucuses, blasting the existing ward commit- tees as racist, sexist, and homopho- bic. The candidates — whom caucus-goers would later remem- ber as disruptive and “robotic” — all lose, and two days later file formal protests of the balloting process with the State Democratic Committee. A review board later dismisses all the appeals. Members of the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s | Rainbow Coalition also attend the ‘| caucuses, passing out flyers official- ly distancing their Rainbow from that of the NAP candidates. After a review board hears an NAP appeal against the Ward 19 caucus for its alleged failure, among .other things, to encqurage minority representation, candidate_ for Ward 19 committee mémber Geor- gia “Mattison if he cark take her picture for the party's weekly - newspaper, the National Alliance. Mattison refuses and raises her. ‘| soft-sided- briefcase.'to shield her | | face, bumping San Juan's camera. Two days later, San Juan files Continued on page 8 o he 7 ware THREE SECTIONS pC