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Affirmative action will have trouble making headway in a year when budget cuts affect hiring at all levels. Those cuts became necessary last year when the state imposed a cap on spending increases. Candidates argue over just where those cuts will fall, since contract negotiations with the Cambridge Teacher's Union are coming up this year. Declining enrollments suggest that it might be necessary to close schools, but few candidates actively support giving up classroom space to save money. They talk of renovating older schools before closing them completely...
There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
Cambridge is the last (and first) bastion of strict proportional representation (residents affectionately call it PR) in the country. To understand the system, let's follow a hypothetical voter through the electoral process--from the voting booth to the floor of the gymnasium, where a corps of veteran pollsters gather every two years to count the ballots...
...thousands of dollars. And although Cambridge political folk wisdom conventionally holds that there are more tenants than landlords, hence more CCA than CHT votes, the conservatives have a whole new constituency to appeal to this year--the more than 2,000 condominium owners who moved to Cambridge since the last election...
Velluci sponsored this question last June because he thinks the voters of Cambridge will give a truer picture of Kennedy's national support than any primary or poll...