Word: councilor
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...conservative Independent faction of the City Council claimed two major victories over the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last night, electing Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci as mayor and taking long-awaited steps toward weakening the city's controversial ordinance prohibiting the conversion of rent-controlled housing to condominiums...
Last Monday's City Council meeting, which set a modern record by lasting only about eight minutes, stunned council observers who have come to expect anything but short sessions from the soliloquy-minded councilors. Balloting for mayor was aborted because of the absence of Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, but next Monday's meeting will likely find the councilors well-rested and ready to go the distance in the race for the top political post on the council and in the city...
...record-breaking meeting was made possible by the unexpected absence of Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the usual swing vote on the sharply divided body and a contender in the race for mayor...
Walter J. Sullivan, the senior council member with Vellucci absent, chaired Monday's brief meeting. Fellow Independent Councilor Leonard Russell told Sullivan that "you did such a great job maybe we should appoint you mayor...
...Councilor Saundra Graham, a member of the rival Cambridge Civic Association, joked to Russell that the CCA would "think about it," but it is extremely unlikely that the CCA would ever support Sullivan...