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 | | Given all this, McGoverns pre-election campaign finance report, filed with the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 13, is full of surprises the biggest one being that the congressman has spent more than $900,000 during the 2003-2004 election season. |
 | | McGovern spokesman Michael Mershon says much of the recent spending is for television ads in Providence and Boston, since the district includes Fall River and other communities close to Providence. |
 | | The question is why McGovern, a wildly popular figure in Worcester at least, felt the need to dump nearly a million clams into defeating Crews, a pastor and former state legislator from Georgia who is best known for his leadership of Massachusetts anti-gay marriage movement. |
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