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Academics Support Massachusetts Candidate's Gubernatorial Campaign.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2002

By Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 20--Robert Reich may never forgive Harvard University for the way it treated his wife, Clare Dalton, when she was denied tenure in 1987. But as he runs for the governor of Massachusetts, he is finding university officials and faculty solidly in his corner.

Nearly 100 Harvard professors and officials have contributed approximately $25,000 to Reich's campaign, the largest share of the $83,000 netted by Reich from his friends in academia, who have emerged as a reliable donor base for the Brandeis University professor.

About two-thirds of donations from college employees have gone to Reich, state campaign finance records for the first six months of 2002 show....

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