To the Editors of the Crimson:

An article published in last Friday's Crimson (10-1) concerning my candidacy for public office here in Cambridge was a totally biased and blatant misrepresentation of everything I said to the person who "interviewed" me. I should have known (as everyone from faculty to student body had warned me) NOT to trust the Crimson unless a third party was present at the interview. I am now aware of the reason that this advice was given to me. Most important, I DID NOT single out Mayor Vellucci as a prime target in my campaign in the sense that I sought to run him out of the Mayor's office. Rather, since I, myself, spoke at the innauguration party for the Mayor, knew tht he was not seeking a second term in that office and so there was never any "scheme" at all like that irresponsible reporter who "interviewed" me claimed. Your reputation for this type of disgraceful journalism became even more apparent at the candidates' meeting last Sunday when other Council candidates refused to talk with a Crimson photographer. Finally, other municipal candidates with Harvard degrees, advised me that they would never give this paper at interview. Robert A. Romagna '74

(Romagna is correct in asserting that he did not plan to remove Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci from office, I regret the error. The rest of the article is factual summary or direct quote, and I stand by its accurcy.   --J. Ryan O. Connell)