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Considered probable votes against Frisoli were Peter G. Gesell, Charles M. Pierce, David A. Wylie and Mayor Barbara Ackermann...
...meeting, held at Rindge Tech Auditorium, was attended over-whelmingly by Frisoli backers who alternately applauded or booed their supporters and opponents on the auditorium stage. A vociferous contingent of anti-Frisoli people provided enough of a balance so that Ackermann, who chaired the meeting, repeatedly had to call for order...
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...
...issue of daycare should offer some insight into how the new council will react toward reform and innovation. The daycare referendum passed with a 60 per cent yes vote in the election and it is certain that Ackermann, Graham, and Owens will support 24-hour daycare. Duehay and Moncreiff should be a little hesitant and what they say in Council and how they vote should give a strong key to the strength and cohensiveness of the supposed new liberal majority...