Deletion of John J. Kerrigan

Comment: Absolutely keep''.  This guy led the school committee opposition to Boston busing desegregation.  INDEPTH coverage of his role exists not merely in the media of the era, but in books and scholarly analysis of that era.  Nom, an enthusiastic new editor, has got to learn to SLOW DOWN when nominating articles related to topics about which he knows little and do a proper .  And '''note''' that this role gets revisited in more recent news coverage, readily found in searches, such as this WBUR article: http://www.wbur.org/news/2014/09/05/boston-busing-anniversary 'It Was Like A War Zone': Busing In Boston: ''"Among those who took his child out of public school was the president of the Boston School Committee, John Kerrigan, an opponent of busing. He said the schools were unsafe
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: fails  and 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:GNG)

Comment: Boston is an internationally prominent global city, which means that it ''is'' one of the cities where city councillors are granted a pass of  #2 as long as they're properly sourced, written like encyclopedia articles rather than campaign brochures, and contain more substance than just "John Kerrigan is a person who exists, the end." All three of those things are true here. Serving on the school board wouldn't be enough all by itself, it's true, but he ''didn't'' just serve on the school board — he ''did'' serve at a level of office that we ''do'' accept as notable as long as the article is written properly
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: fails  and  per nom
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NBIO)

Comment: that longstanding paragraph in article about Kerrigan's entry into politics and pre-politics career is sourced to J. Anthony Lukas' book Common Ground (book)|Common Ground, the 1985 book that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction|Pulitzer Prize, & the National Book Award, & the National Book Critics Circle Award.  This article needs improvement, but  exists in powerful abundance.  The fact that he was a "mere" member of the School Committee is misleading.  He was notable
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SIGCOV)

Comment: How on earth could someone be notable when their sole claim to fame was being a school committee chair? As stated, fails  and  with zero evidence of |significant coverage
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:SIGCOV)