During law school Massad worked on Michael Dukakis 's successful 1982 campaign for Governor of Massachusetts . During the 1988 presidential election Massad again supported Dukakis , whom he described as his political hero . Massad was a voting delegate at the 1988 Democratic National Convention , where Dukakis was nominated for president , and took a leave of absence from Cravath to serve as Connecticut director of the Dukakis campaign for the general election . Dukakis lost Connecticut , and the election , to George H. W. Bush
1988 Democratic National Convention
1988 Democratic National Convention
Timothy Massad