Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerk methodically ticked off the names; the councilors droned out their picks. But this time it seemed different. A couple of the councilors whose names fell early on the roll cast their ballots for an unknown councilor, a nobody, someone not even campaigning for the post. He in turn, in a moment of glee, shouted his own name. And then, maybe by mistake, or sheer exhaustion, the anonymous councilor accumulated a fourth, and then a fifth and final nod. The deadlock was smashed. The councilors awaited the bang of the clerk's gavel officially ending the stalemate...
...four liberals, Councilors Barbara Ackerman, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, and councilor-elect David Clem said last night they will support the establishment of the new office when the new council convenes in January...
...Some councilors, however, are willing to let the situation stay as it is, including Mayor Walter J. Sullivan. Sullivan--no relation to the City Manager--said he would vote against "any attempt to put a civilian in charge of the police." Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said he agrees with Mayor Sullivan...
...They (Sullivan and Russell) don't want to be involved with Tom Danehy," Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said yesterday. "They'll never forget the day that Danehy was in control...
...designed both to eliminate corruption by removing administrative authority from elected officials and to allow for representation of all significant minorities on the town's nine-member council. Under the Proportional Representation voting system every group that can muster ten per cent of the vote is assured a councilor...