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- Walter_A._O'Brien abstract "Walter A. O'Brien, Jr. (December 19, 1914 - July 1998) was a Progressive Party politician from Boston, Massachusetts, United States in the 1940s.In 1949 O'Brien ran for mayor of Boston. Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O'Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town. O'Brien was fined $10 for disturbing the peace as a result.One of those songs, "Charlie on the M.T.A.", has survived all memory of O'Brien himself, thanks largely to the Kingston Trio, who recorded and released the song (as "M.T.A.") in 1959. The smart card for Boston transit is called a "CharlieCard".O'Brien finished last in the mayoral race. In the election of November 8, 1949, John B. Hynes received 137,930 votes, James M. Curley received 126,000, Patrick J. "Sonny" McDonough received 22,230, George F. Oakes received 7,171, and Walter A. O'Brien received 3,659 (1.2% of the total).By the mid-1950s, the strong leftist policies of the Progressives combined with the Red Scare led to their public perception as communists (though they had no connection to the existing Communist Party). As a result, O'Brien disappeared into political obscurity along with his party. The Kingston Trio changed O'Brien's name in their version of the song to avoid it being associated with his party.After his political career ended, O'Brien retired to his home state of Maine, where he worked as a librarian and later ran a bookstore.".
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