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...Councilor Alice K. Wolf, who finished fourth of nine Councilors in 1985, said last night that she feared she might get too few vital numberone votes. "I heard a lot of people saying, `you've got my number two vote,'" she said...
...Benedictine sister, Salerno was the most unconventional candidate in the city councilor race and she won big citywide. She was particularly popular in Boston's Mission Hill section, the North End and in the Back Bay, coming in first in all three of these precincts...
Aside from the at-large council candidates nine councilor were elected from city districts. They are: incumbent Robert Travaglini, incumbent James M. Kelley, incumbent James E. Byrne, incumbent Charles C. Yancey, incumbent Thomas Menino, incumbent Maura Hennigan Casey, incumbent Bruce C. Bolling, incumbent David C. Scondras '67, and incumbent Brian McLaughlin...
Even the leader of Cambridge's anti-rent control faction, City Councilor William H. Walsh, does not propose to eliminate controls on apartments rented to low-income, handicapped, and elderly tenants. Walsh's unsuccessful 1986 rent proposal would have set aside 30% of all rental units for the needy. Need would be assessed by a means test, similar no doubt to the annoying but sensible financial aid forms many of us fill out year after year...
Although this particular aspect of the Walsh Plan is reasonable, rent control supporters--led by City Councilor David E. Sullivan--generally prefer the existing Cambridge controls. In the meantime, 2,500 citizens languish on the Cambridge public housing waiting lists that date until 1992; professionals seeking absurdly cheap apartments offer "finders" up to $1000 for information leading to the discovery of a below market-rate unit; and libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick rented a 2500 square foot apartment--complete with jacuzzi, sauna, and balcony--that was nonetheless subject to rent control restrictions...