Word: ackermanns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barbara Ackermann...
Long a favorite candidate of the "WASP ghetto" running out along Brattle St., reform incumbent Barbara Ackermann knows her constituency well...
...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...
...four liberals on the Cambridge City Council--Barbara Ackermann, Francis H. Duehay, Saundra Graham and David A. Wylie--got together last May to from the new group. The candidates, except for Graham who is perhaps a bit more radical, have pretty much the same views, and have consolidated to gain a fifth seat on the nine-member council...