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...Civic Association or Common Slate Candidate (I do not believe in slates, especially when they're made up privately), I do not have access to the fat-cat or liberal mailing list that Hagert's endorsees Tim Callahan, Eric Davin, or Mary Preusser have. I must reach these people, if I can find them, personally or with personal funding--and it hurts when you must pay out of your own pocket. Preusser, Orie Dudley, Peter Gesell, Alice. Wolf, and Dave Wylie all have over $2500 in funding behind them...
Hagert quotes Eric Davin's speeches in this piece confirming that he did speak with some candidates. I am incensed that he was willing to make rash and inaccurate statements about me without even paying me the courtesy of checking his facts. Glenn S. Koocher '71 Candidate for Cambridge School Committee
...CCA/Common Slate candidates for school committee are all excellent and need no elaboration. Timothy Callahan, Eric Davin, Orie Dudley, Peter Gesell, Charles Pierce, Mary Ellen Preusser and Alice Wolf would work with Superintendent Cheatham for better schools and better teachers in Cambridge...
...Davin probably won't win. And to a large extent, that's because he is the only CCA Common Slate candidate who openly admits that educational change does not end where structural innovation begins. In this way he is the only candidate who differs--at least in verbalizations and on paper--from his independent opponents...
Ironically, it is in this way that he may well be closer to the ideology of the independents. They claim the "openness" prescribed by the reformers is insignificant. Davin would probably agree. In essence, most of the reformers are content to apply superficial structural innovations throughout education and the political process. And it is in this sense they are not reformers at all, but parrots of the same old system trying to palm off the same old ideology merely by renaming the structure...