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Although all of the most qualified candidates are running with Cambridge Convention '75 endorsement, incumbents Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55, Barbara Ackermann and David Wylie deserve particular mention as proven forces in good government, rent control and neighborhood preservation...
Active, successful, and well-respected in her "district" and in City Hall, Ackermann will have little trouble defending her candidacy. And, unless her political strengths wane suddenly, Cambridge is guaranteed her return to council chambers for yet another term...
...Ackermann's involvement in Cambridge politics has been a 14-year affair, starting with election, and two successive re-elections to the school committee. Then, in 1967, she entered and handily won the contest for councilor, a post she has easily retained in later elections. In 1971, when reform candidates narrowly captured a 5-4 majority in the council, she was made the first woman mayor of the city. And last election, though an independent majority forced her to step down from the city throne, Ackermann helped engineer the famous "living room deal" which brought in James L. Sullivan...
Even without her reputation as a winner, Ackermann's strength as a reformer will win votes again for her in the "gentile liberal" Neighborhood 9. Particularly strong has been her involvement in housing reform and health care, both recurrent issues in Cambridge's political cycle. Like other incumbents, Ackermann has pointed to the $5.50 tax rate decrease as "a real gain," arguing that last year's $33 jump in the rate stemmed from the city's "total financial incapacity" under the old city manager...
...their defeat two years ago, reform elements--backed by professional and university-affiliated groups in the city--have submerged their differences in an issue-oriented coalition under the banner of Cambridge Convention '75. Last spring the convention endorsed a slate composed of the four incumbent liberal councilors--Duehay, Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham and David A. Wylie--and four others, in an effort to improve their chances of capturing a majority of the city council...