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Unlike Cambridge, which elects representatives to its nine City Council seats by citywide vote, New Haven votes for its thirty aldermen by district. As a result, Yale, which occupies a large portion of the city’s first ward, has historically been successful in putting an Eli on the board...
...former Yale students who served as New Haven aldermen have donated to the Cheung campaign. One of them, Ben Healy, said that he was excited by Cheung’s campaign because he had seen firsthand the importance of bringing a student voice into city politics...
...safety, if they care about development around the campus, if they care about the schools around them, having someone who could speak for that and who is accessible to a student population is just very powerful,” Healy says. “The best of the Yale aldermen have learned how to push the city and the university at the same time...I think that’s what Leland represents. That’s what his campaign is trying to emphasize...
...those were just the governors. In 1895, a group of Chicago aldermen known as the Gray Wolves (because they preyed on the public) awarded the city's gas business to the fictional Ogden Gas Company - in which the Wolves were involved - and forced the real gas company to purchase it from them. There's also the state auditor who stole $1.5 million and used it to buy two planes, four cars and three homes before spending six and a half years in prison; the Prison Review Board member who voted to free notorious mobster Harry Aleman in exchange for getting...
...Dick Simpson, a former local elected official who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, counts hundreds of politicians who have been sent to jail since 1971, including 30 aldermen and three of the past seven governors. "The whole mess has to be taken in context," he explains. But even by Chicago standards, Blagojevich seems especially kleptocratic, according to prosecutors. He tried to shake down highway contractors, job seekers and health-care administrators. He talked of holding up bill-signings in exchange for favors - and seemed not to understand when his targets balked at his demands. When...