Word: ackermanns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they do, Cambridge will see the firing of the City Manager--who is ultimately responsible for about 90 per cent of the jobs in the City, the firing of the City Solicitor, and the election of Cambridge's favorite liberal politician--Barbara Ackermann--to the mayoralty post. Ackermann's being named mayor is doubly important in view of the fact that the School Board elections have given a 50-50 split to "liberals" and "independents," meaning that the furor over Superintendent of Schools E. Frank Frisoli '35 will finally be calmed, by Barbara Ackermann with her tie-breaking vote...
...Ackermann's biggest job will not be keeping the liberal school Committee members together--they get along and are reasonably settled on issues--but rather trying to accomplish the same thing on the Council, where it will be her duty to keep such divergent types as Saundra Graham, on one hand, and Robert Moncreiff and Henry Owens, on the other, working and voting as a group...
...feel now that he has much bigger things than the Cambridge City Council in his sights, so that it's rather unlikely that he will line up with the older "independents" on the Council. But it is also felt that it will take a strong effort by Graham and Ackermann to keep him in the liberal camp...
Moncreiff, the Rhodes Scholar Republican, will be a different sort of problem for reformers Graham and Ackermann. His campaign ptich that the only thing that needed to get Cambridge back on the road to good government was the firing of the City Manager leaves one with the feeling that he's taking a little too simplistic an approach to the City's problems. At one point during the campaign he said. "Most of the talk about rent control and day care is a lot of baloney--the important thing is to get a new City Manager." But Moncreiff, whose constituency...
...largest problems facing Cambridge is the firing of the City Manager. He does go a little farther than Moncreiff in feeling that the entire City Hall bureaucracy should be managerial-corporate view of the city government but he too should be open to strong pressure from Ackermann's Brattle Street crowd to keep a righteously liberal stance on issues...