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Commenting on the meeting, CCA President Don Berlin said: "In a flagrant betrayal of public trust, these elected servants of the public wrapped up a private package deal which makes the infamous 'family night' of four years ago look like a Sunday-School picnic...
Newly elected Cambridge mayor Edward A. Sullivan, an Independent, indicated that he would support Curry, who was first elected by a CCA controlled council...
...four CCA-endorsed councillors, who had opposed Sullivan in his successful bid for mayor, said that they expected no dramatic changes under the Sullivan regime. "If he tees the mark, we're with him, but if he wants a flery administration, he can get that, too," Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 commented yesterday...
During the fortnight's balloting, other city business was at a standstill. For Cambridge's traditionally dilatory Council, however, the election was consummated in a remarkably short time. Two years ago, it took 167 ballots before another political deal, between CCA-endorsed councillors and John J. Foley, put the latter into office. Even this did not constitute the highpoint of Council deadlock: in 1948, the Council dallied into mid-April before Michael J. Neville emerged as mayor From the smoke-filled Council chamber. During those four months, no other City business was considered...
Another proposal, which CCA members suggest, would make the mayoralty election separate from the Council elections. The voters would elect one mayor and eight Councilmen--not nine potential mayors as at present. The delays and recurring political deals would vanish, and the mayoralty would cease to be a political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much...