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...Judge Martha Sossman upheld the county limit rule this week. The judge, however, also ruled in favor of Jillson's group when she decided to count the 334 signatures from petitions which did not have proper registrar approval...
...Jillson, the homeowners' coalition president, is confident. In initial polling, she said rent control has garnered little support outside Cambridge and Boston, two of the few cities that employ...
...What the Jillson plaintiffs did in collecting signatures is not in keeping with what the [Massachusetts] Constitutional Convention of 1918 intended the initiative petition process to be," Nadler said...
...Jillson admitted in an interview this week that some fraud was committed during the petition drive. But she said violations were inevitable in a process with so many signatures...
...Jillson and other opponents of rent control claimed rent control is a state issue. The homeowners' coalition president points out, for example, that Cambridge forfeits $12 million a year in property taxes and Boston, which also employs rent-control, forfeits $17 million a year...