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...conservative Independent and the liberal Cambridge--Civic Association (CCA) councilors alike were troubled for the second straight meeting by a recent methane fire at the city dump, and called City Manager Robert W. Healy and Acting Public Works Commissioner Everett Kennedy before the council to give a report...
...council hopefuls responded to CLAGA's invitation and were present at the meeting last Thursday. CLAGA members "highly endorsed" incumbent councilors Saundra Graham and David E. Sullivan, and challenger Alice Wolf, all running on the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate. CCA incumbents Francis H. Duehay '55 and David A. Wylie got regular endorsements as well as challenger William L. Durette...
Seventeen out of the 32 candidates showed up at the meeting, including incumbent city councilors Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan, David A. Wylie, all endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci. Challengers present included Richard Branson, Francis Budryk, William L. Durette Jr. '85 and Alice Wolf, another CCA-endorsed candidate...
When the question finally came to a vote, the councilors split along customary partisan lines. The four members of the Independent slate--considered the city's conservative faction--voted no. They were Daniel Clinton. Thomas Danehy. Leonard Russell, and Walter J. Sullivan Three Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members--Francis H. Duehay '55. Saundra Graham, and Wylie--joined the unaffiliated Vellucci in voting yes David Sullivan, the fourth (CCA) member, did not participate in the vote, saying that his position with the state election commission placed him in a conflict of interest...
...only a handful of American cities to use the scheme by which voters rank their preferences, and once a candidate gets a sufficient number of first place votes, his ballots spill over to the number two ranking candidate (or something like that). Currently, power is balanced, with the CCA and the Independents each holding four seats, and Vellucci, who calls himself a "small i" independent, often providing the swing vote...