Word: elected
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...Tuesday, Feb. 20, Cambridge parents, teachers and all who were watching the cablecast of the School Committee meeting witnessed a shameful display of partisan politics. Members Duehay, Simmons, Segat and Turkel, the supposed enlightened members of the committee, had privately decided to elect a vice chair. Despite the objections of David Maher and Joseph Grassi that a motion for such an election was out of order because it did not appear on the Feb. 20 meeting agenda and therefore failed to provide notice to interested persons, Acting Chair Duehay allowed a motion by Alice Turkel, seconded by Susana Segat...
Perhaps Duehay remembered another Cambridge mayoral race, not of the 80's but of the 40's. In the election of 1948, City Councillor Ed Crane crossed party lines after 1,321 deadlocked ballots to elect Councillor Michael J. Neville mayor...
...Schacter read the Constitution? The last time I checked, there is considerable language in there about the right of citizens to elect their leaders. There may even be a word or two about free speech and free assembly, but I'm not sure. In fact, as strange as it may sound to Ms. Schacter, I've even voted in elections--two of them, actually and, unless people start listening to her, I plan to vote again in November. I would even vote in a primary of all things, but there isn't much of a race in my party...
According to city councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, the council reached an agreement to elect Russell last week...
...longest impasse lasted from January 1 to April 23, 1948, and required 1,321 separate ballots to elect Mayor Michael Neville...