Word: councilor
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Daniel J. Clinton, a three-term Independent city councilor, is battling a dangerous trend this year: since his first successful bid for the council in 1969, his electoral position has dropped from fifth place to sixth in 1971 and, finally to eighth...
...area. Cambridge law allows residents to petition for zoning changes, and in the past year two neighborhomds, Agassiz and Mid-Cambridge, have restricted construction to 35 feet high. Though they require a two-thirds vote from the council, political log-rolling makes the petitions virtually unstoppable. If a councilor refused to accede to a request from one neighborhood, he would be in trouble when the people in his neighborhood decided they want down-zoning...
Ackermann's involvement in Cambridge politics has been a 14-year affair, starting with election, and two successive re-elections to the school committee. Then, in 1967, she entered and handily won the contest for councilor, a post she has easily retained in later elections. In 1971, when reform candidates narrowly captured a 5-4 majority in the council, she was made the first woman mayor of the city. And last election, though an independent majority forced her to step down from the city throne, Ackermann helped engineer the famous "living room deal" which brought in James L. Sullivan...
Barber said he knows no reason to pay a city councilor $150 a night to discuss a United Farm Workers boycott when "Cambridge has so many goddamn problems that need attending...
...would like to point out one fact, however. You referred in this article to the original proposal as follows: "The original ordinance--proposed by Councilor David Wylie in June 1974..." Since I have some knowledge of the origins of this ordinance, I would like to point out that it was originally proposed by Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, through whose efforts the measure was drafted by David Vickery and the City Planning Department. Mary Conlan