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But since Cambridge’s day-to-day operations are in the hands of an appointed city manager, Sullivan says a councillor’s job is not to legislate but to act as a liaison between residents and the city government.
He contends that the city manager, who has been in office longer than any current councillor, cannot be relied on to guarantee that services are delivered efficiently to all neighborhoods. Other councillors, he says, are too timid to take on Healey because they need his approval to push through their...
In his one term on the council, Kelley has done two things few councillors have dared: launched a frontal assault on longtime City Manager Robert W. Healy and crossed the divide between the City Council and the School Committee by frequently taking positions on school district issues.
“The city manager reports to us, not the other way around,” he notes. “It’s only through us that he and the city government are accountable to the public.”
It seems a lot of Republicans took to heart Obama's statement in his rousing speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America." And with polls showing Obama still trailing Clinton...