Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coates's only hope for a council seat on November 4 lies in the voters' memories. He was a city councilor for six years, and during that period was one of Cambridge's few black elected officials. In 1973 he was defeated for re-election...
Coates was once endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association but sources said that the Independent councilors want him to run to draw votes away from Saundra Graham, a black incumbent city councilor who is a strong advocate of rent control. Those sources cite Coates's position on rent control as evidence of his sympathy with the city's landlords and big real estate developers...
...often get the headlines," Duehay said about his role as a city councilor. Because he is not outrageously right or left of the political spectrum, Duehay feels that the role he has played in building the liberal coalition has been minimized. But the Cambridge-bred Duehay has been a binding force in the liberals' quest for a good government city manager...
Like it or not, Saundra Graham is going to be elected city councilor again this year. So what if she favors strict rent control laws or that she has spent much time trying to arrange low interest loans to home-owners, or that she has voted for every downzoning petition proposed by Cambridge neighborhood groups. Graham will be re-elected because she is a populist in the old Mary "Raise-Less-Corn-More-Hell" Lease tradiiton. And Cambridge, with its Proportional Representation system, is a town that lends itself to electing populists if they have enough clout and identity with...
Eddie Crane, poor son of a Cambridge cop, Harvard magna cum laude, city councilor for almost 30 years, was a power broker for as long as most Cambridge political experts can recall...