In battle over housing for veterans, the Marine wins

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By Thomas Farragher

The prince and the captain squared off this week and in the end, the prince — not accustomed to losing — never had a chance.

And for that, veterans around the city are applauding the captain, also known as US Representative Seth Moulton, a highly decorated veteran and former US Marine captain who served four tours of duty in Iraq.

The prince is our secretary of state, William Francis Galvin, who for a generation has been known around Massachusetts politics as the “prince of darkness’’ for his dour-faced and wily political skills that usually help him gethire vets what he wants. Not this time.

Here’s what happened:

Brighton Marine Health Center sits on a small hill near St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. The health center there had a plan that had virtually every stakeholder who reviewed it nodding in enthusiastic agreement. Not Bill Galvin, a Brighton resident, who fashions himself as the unofficial mayor of his neighborhood.

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