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In an open letter to city councillors earlier this month, vanBeuzekom called on them to justify the votes they cast for mayor. The current election procedure does not require the councillors to give any explanation of their votes.
VanBeuzekom contrasted a December 2009 editorial by new City Councillor Leland Cheung, in which he stated he would evaluate the mayoral candidates “on equal footing,” based on “their ideas, experience, and track record,” with the current election situation...
School Committee member Marc C. McGovern said that despite the stalemate over the mayoral election, he does not want people to have the impression that the Committee is not doing its work, as it is currently presided over by Acting Mayor Reeves.
At this point, friendship may be too much to ask for. The country wants to see business getting done civilly and responsibly, not watch punches thrown on a frosty Beltway playground. Obama needs to conduct some sort of face-to-face intervention with amenable senior Republican legislators, to convince them...
These days, Republicans have even less political incentive to cooperate with the President. Shattered after the 2008 election, the party nevertheless has found a shortcut back to power - and, especially in the wake of Senator Evan Bayh's planned retirement, has a chance to win control of Congress in 2010...