Word: elections
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...weeks, Anthony D. Galluccio stayed stuck at two votes--his and that of Timothy P. Toomey, Jr.--in the Cambridge City Council's race to elect a mayor...
...Reeves' Valentine's Day soon turned sour. In the next few hours, as the council hammered out a final draft of a Linear Park down-zoning ordinance in North Cambridge, Galluccio, an Independent, persuaded CCA councillors Braude and Davis and Independents Maher and Sullivan to elect him mayor...
...students spend 51 weeks of the year blissfully unconcerned with the council and its politics. But then we elect a president who is fundamentally an administrator without any real knowledge of how he or she has performed to date and no grasp of which candidates possess the set of skills necessary to work with the administration on behalf of students. Despite their flaws, perhaps it makes much more sense to have the council operate like other student organizations, where the members choose their own leaders based on the knowledge they gain by working alongside them all semester...
...that is lost by having the council elect its own leaders would be the supposed moral value of having the student body elect its own leaders. But this claim fundamentally misunderstands the role of the council leadership. They might win the respect and gratitude of students by helping to bring about improvements in undergraduate life, but hardly anyone will ever see the council president as the leader of the student body or the manifest voice of undergraduate opinion. The president is at best a fine administrator with the potential to make worthwhile changes, and administrators are best chosen by those...
Earlier in the evening, the council had failed to elect a mayor on two separate occasions, driving the Valentine Day's meeting well beyond its expected length...