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...bill--which would allow a local veto of the massive tax cuts mandated by 2 1/2 has "a good chance of passing" in the Senate, city councilor David E. Sullivan said last night, adding that the legislation has the support of both Cambridge state senators, considered crucial on home rule bills...
...City Councilor David A. Wylie said he expected the bill to pass "because everybody is on the hook with 2 1/2." Massachusetts badly needs tax reform, but 2 1/2 is an "unmitigated disaster," he said, adding, however, that he would vote for the override because "it is a mitigated disaster...
Under 2 1/2, Cambridge would be forced to cut $11-to $12-million from its budget next year, Leonard J. Russell, Cambridge city councilor said yesterday. The cuts would free the city to "dismantle the whole school system," he added, saying that he would support the override...
Proposition 2 1/2 pressures are not only affecting the schools. City Councilor David Wylie said yesterday he would like to see a third printing of the city's popular civil defense booklet, which advocates nuclear disarmament as the best way to maintaining public safety. But Wylie adds that budget considerations may keep the city from adding to the 40,000 booklets which have already been printed...
...urge every Independent member of the council to vote against the proposed amendment; the councilors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association seem solidly opposed to the measure. Most likely, councilor Alfred E. Vellucci will be the swing vote. Though he is rightly angered by the weak support he, in many ways the best friend city tenants have ever had, received from local liberals in last month's election, Vellucci has always before shown his compassion on important votes. We hope he will once more vote to save the diversity of Cambridge...