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With more than half of the nine-member City Council signed up for the race, each candidate faced the daunting task of garnering at least five votes from their fellow councillors to be elected mayor...
...ready to vote as often as I need to until we as a group can choose a mayor,” said council member Sam Seidel at that first meeting. “It’s going to take a lot more talking, and some more cups of coffee...
Despite the smaller pool, however, the Council was repeatedly unable to reach a consensus. During the sixth and final election—on Feb. 22, eight weeks after the initial ballot—Decker expressed a desire to expedite the sluggish process...
...have to ask ourselves, if there is no mayor, and there are no committee assignments to chair, then what does the City Council do?” Decker said in a lengthy defense of urgency...
That night, Maher seized six votes and the title of mayor of Cambridge. The Council then voted to make the result unanimous...