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Peck also quarrels with Mahoney over the "PR" question. Peck is strongly in favor of proportional representation, saying that it is an invaluable aid to minor political groups who would otherwise not be represented in the City's governing bodies...
...Legislature voted earlier this year to abolish PR, even though Cambridge is the only city in the Commonwealth that uses it. Mahoney attached an ammendment to the bill that would have allowed Cambridge to vote on the issue directly. But the matter became academic when the courts ruled the statute unconstitutional...
Peck charges that Mahoney should have known the bill would be declared invalid (since it applied to only one community) and that he should have prevented it from ever reaching the floor of the House...
...third major issue for Peck is the district's need for a full-time representative, which he promises he will be if elected. Mahoney says it's a bogus issue because he has had a 99 per cent attendance record at the House, and has found sufficient time to do the committee work required of all legislators. "It's like academics," Mahoney said recently. "Some people can work 20 hours a day and accomplish nothing. Other people can accomplish much more in a relatively short period of time...
...Mahoney says he is most proud of legislation that he sponsored which give state authorization for the City to issue parking stickers to Cambridge residents to park on their own residential streets, which he claims are now pre-empted by non-residents. He is also pleased to have co-sponsored legislation that called upon the Governor to provide rebates to Massachusetts motorists for over payments to insurance companies...