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Cambridge's unusual proportional representation system permits voters to support as many Council candidates as they like, in order of preference. We suggest you head your ballot with the names of the seven pro-rent control candidates, and that you give your #1 vote--which counts most--to incumbent Councilor David E. Sullivan...
...last municipal ballot, in 1985, carriedthree referendum questions that broadened thesubjects of debate: candidates could declaimagainst the testing of nerve gas in Cambridge,debate whether pornography was a form of sexualharrassment, or criticize Harvard Real Estate forselling small houses to its faculty members on apreferential basis...
This year, the only referendum on the ballot isan "advisory" question asking voters whether thecity should require more police foot patrols inneighborhoods...
...city was nearly convulsed by a bindingreferendum on limiting animal experimentation incity laboratories. However, the CambridgeCommittee for Responsible Research, the localanimal-rights group sponsoring the referendum, wasunable to collect the 3800 voters' signaturesnecessary to place it on the ballot. The matter islikely to be resolved by a special three-membercommission that will report to the City Councilafter the election...
...only other attempt to create a referendumwas an attack on the city rent control system,which also failed to reach the ballot because itssponsor, realtor Fred Meyer, did not collectenough petition signatures. If passed, it wouldhave allowed rent control landlords to sell unitsto tenants of three years or more.City Councilor ALFRED E. VELLUCCI...