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...present administration of City Manager John Corcoran, backed by city councillors Thomas Coates, Daniel Clinton, Edward Crane '35, Walter Sullivan, Thomas Danehy and Mayor Alfred Velluci, has proven its inability to effect change. A rent control ordinance was enacted but not administered for six months and then only in watered down fashion, and cases of police brutality were discussed but not investigated. Political favors are available for real estate interests, friends of pols, and the universities, but the average citizen still has a hard time getting his driveway permit...
While his stand on corruption is tough, and he supports the firing of city manager Corcoran and city solicitor Cronin, Romagna takes an unusually friendly--for a Cambridge politician at election time--stand toward the universities"...they are good for the city," he said. "I'm not against any more expansion of the universities--the city will probably keep the same mix of rich and poor, and we just ought to face it, and start building the city up," he added. "I'm in favor of the university building high-rise, high-income condominiums along the riverfront...
Like all of the "Five," Smilowitz proposes the immediate firing of city manager Corcoran and rent control administrator Corkery. He also supports the rent control referendum, saying that it is the single most important step in preserving communities in Cambridge...
According to the Phoenix, Coates came to City Manager James Sullivan to ask that his friend, Norman Watson, be appointed to a job with the Cambridge Housing Authority. Sullivan refused, and Coates, like four other councillors, voted for his firing, and later voted for present City Manager John H. Corcoran. The Phoenix also states that two other Coates' associates have been hired by the city: George Thompson, brother of Coates' 1969 campaign manager, and Gloria Waddie, a close friend...
...yesterday's meeting virtually all of the candidates agreed that the City Manager should be held more accountable to Cambridge residents, and pledged the immediate firing of present City Manager John Corcoran...