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...Monday the man who had given the stirring nomination speech switched his vote, placing Daniel J. Hayes Jr.--the ninth-place finisher in the last two elections to the Council--in the mayor's seat. Sullivan had expected that Maher would remain loyal until his vote was released. He didn't, and when he changed he carried four other Councillors with...
This time there had seemed to be a real chance. On the first ballot (taken Jan. 3, after the Council's inauguration), Sullivan had received four votes. His name had been placed in nomination by William G. Maher, a new Councillor who had made a strong and forceful speech. Alfred E. Vellucci, who has a habit of voting for himself, had broadly hinted that he would switch to Sullivan in due course...
That majority of five broke all the traditional rules of how politics works in Cambridge. Besides Maher, who is an Irish Catholic and draws support from many of the same groups as Sullivan, the group included Thomas Coates, a Negro Councillor endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association; Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, the Council's only Republican and also CCA-endorsed; Bernard Goldberg, a Jew and an independent (non-CCA) Councillor; and, of course, Hayes, an independent with a relatively restricted base in North Cambridge...
Take a look at the Councillors who voted for Hayes and DeGuglielmo: Hayes has only been on the Council since '62; Goldberg since '62; Coates since '64; Maher since last week; and Mrs. Wheeler, with an interruption, since '60. Of the Curry supporters, Crane, Vellucci, and Sullivan have the longest tenure of any current Councillors. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, first elected in 1963, is the sole newcomer, and his loyalty to Curry can be explained, to a large extent, by a long friendship with Crane...
...five independents -- Maher, Sullivan, Vellucci, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Bernard Goldberg -- caucused for about twenty minutes before the Council's inauguration ceremony began. They could not agree on a unanimous choice, and according to one report, discussed the possibility of a "round robin": a different independent would receive four votes on each ballot...