Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a large number of Marxists who came to this area from all parts of the country, and they're using Berkeley as a guinea pig," he said. "This is the start. It's going to spread to Madison, Wis., and Cambridge, Mass., and places like that...
...Louisiana congressman informed his colleagues. The headline in U.S. News and World Reports was less pessimistic: it said, "Radicals use the system--and find that it works!" The story beneath this pronouncement speculated on the election's significance for other communities with large student populations. It mentioned Madison, Wisc. and Cambridge, Mass. as particularly inviting targets for radical takeover...
Sure enough, two years later Madison elected a radical mayor. But so far at least, Cambridge's elections are very much in the mainstream of American politics. Few students vote in them, and professional Harvard-baiters like Al Vellucci consistently outpoll professional leftists like Saundra Graham...
...many ways, the election that made Paul Soglin Madison's mayor last April was similar to the 1971 Berkeley election. In fact, some of Soglin's opponents accused him of trying to turn Madison into "another Berkeley." Like the Berkeley radicals, Soglin got some help from divisions among his opponents, defeating a couple of liberals in a primary and then going on with liberal support and a massive student registration drive to beat the conservative incumbent...
Soglin had begun leading demonstrations against the war in 1963, helped lead Wisconsin's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, went to law school and then got himself elected to the city council, where he scandalized his colleagues by releasing the names and photographs of the city's narcs to Madison's student and underground press...