Word: charter
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...sobering effect of the Los Angeles riots also made itself felt in the primary with the overwhelming 67%-to-33% passage of a local ballot initiative, Charter Amendment F, which will impose greater civilian authority over the Los Angeles police chief. Lame-duck chief Daryl Gates, clearly the target of many of the yes voters, complained that they had been "sold a bill of goods." But Los Angeles' Urban League president John Mack called it "a home run for justice...
...Leslie also denies that his group isinterested in altering the charter and says thathe'd "be delighted to talk to Walsh's sourcesother than his own imagination...
...Wolf does not entirely dismiss thepossibility of a change in the city's charter. Shesays the strong mayor-strong city managerdiscussion crops up every few years and that nowmay be an opportune time for the debate to beresumed...
...citizens of Cambridge should not count onsuch any radical change coming out of City Hallany time soon, say politicians from both factions.According to Alfred E. Vellucci, a formerIndependent mayor who supports many CCA-causes,changing the city's charter is a long andcomplicated process...
...increasing partisanship and uncertainpolitical future must appear alien to Cambridge--aone-party city whose charter declares that therewill be no partisanship...