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...proposal, if passed, would create a simple mayoral ballot separate from the one used to elect city councillors. A voter would check one candidate for mayor...
...Cambridge, most of the day-to-day functioning is overseen by the City Manager, Robert W. Healy, instead of the mayor. Galluccio and Reeves emphasized that “in no way would [our] changes alter the power” of the mayor, and that increased mayoral influence was not their intention...
Dennis L. Irish, a city councillor in Worcester, which directly elects its mayor, said that Cambridge’s proposed model could easily cause tension between the mayor and the city manager...
...mayor will become the chief political figure in the city,” Irish said in an interview yesterday...
Supporters countered this claim, sometimes heatedly, arguing that voters ought to select their mayor, and direct election would eliminate the political wrangling among councillors for the mayor’s seat...