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First-term Councillor Leland Cheung made a recommendation yesterday to check the legality of using a runoff election procedure in this year’s mayoral election to speed up the process. The proposal was unanimously passed.

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Fails To Elect Mayor for Sixth Time | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

Local pundit Robert Winters, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School and heads a blog about Cambridge politics, said that he would prefer that a mayor be elected as soon as possible, but that multiple factors are drawing the election into a stalemate.

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Fails To Elect Mayor for Sixth Time | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who called the process of electing a mayor "time consuming," said that the Boston Globe was unfair to report that Reeves—the former mayor of Cambridge who currently possesses only two votes—was impeding the progress of the election. Yesterday�...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Fails To Elect Mayor for Sixth Time | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

Decker was a candidate for mayor earlier this year, but withdrew from the race. Since then both she and Simmons have announced that they are running in the special election for the Mass. State Senate Seat from which Anthony D. Galluccio resigned in January.

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Fails To Elect Mayor for Sixth Time | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

• In the aftermath of the election, Fonseka refused to accept the results, speaking conspiratorially of plots to assassinate him. His opponents in power accused him of planning to topple the government; on Feb. 8, over 100 soldiers burst into a political meeting Fonseka was attending and took him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarath Fonseka | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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