Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petition, an amendment to the city's rent control bill, must receive the approval of the State legislature before it becomes law. It must also receive a second approval by the council since City Councilor Lawrence Frisoli filed to reconsider the petition...
...ELECTION OF City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy as Cambridge's new mayor is a disappointment but it probably will not change the progressive orientation of Cambridge's administration. Under the city's form of government the office entails much more pomp and circumstance than actual power...
...distinguish party affiliations by the physical divisions of the room. The conservative Independents do not sit on one side of the room, as if facing off against the liberals; rather, the two groups sit side-by-side. The room's geography underscores an important point; at least one city councilor believes that the council is not as ideological and party-oriented as some may think...
Opinions on the strength of party divisions differ. Councilor David C. Wylie believes that outsiders make far too much of the differences between liberals and conservatives. The liberals, he says, actually vote conservatively on some issues. Saundra Graham, another liberal, takes a different view, however. In fact, Graham credits her liberal coalition with the success of many of the progressive measures the council has taken up recently. For starters, she notes the liberals have over the years been responsible for maintaining strong rent control legislation in Cambridge. And one of Graham's biggest concerns as a councilor, the issue...
...liberals, on the other hand, cannot be scored too sharply for their miscalculation. Vellucci was indeed their second choice, but they wanted first to try to elect either Graham or Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55. Apparently they searched for the crucial Independent vote needed to put them over the top, and were expecting last Monday to elect Duehay with the support of Councilor Lawrence Frisoli. Instead they got Danehy--as in one of the more mystifying aspects of the election, Vellucci supported Danehy...