Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vellucci, while not a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, has supported rent control for years. "You've got to be black, you've got to be poor, you've got to be ethnic to feel it," he told a Kennedy School crowd Saturday night...
...reason Cantabrigians care so much about municipal elections is that the stakes are sky-high. The entire nine-member council turns over every two years; the potential for change in the city is enormous. And even if only a single seat changes hands in Tuesday's balloting, the effects on city policy are potentially massive...
...because there's nothing in his record to talk about. Timilty's biggest selling point is his work as chairman of President Carter's National Commission on Neighborhoods. But his performance there, like his work in the state house, was less than stellar. Almost half the commission's 19 members dissented on the final report--and the other half quit or were fired. And Timilty has been stressing the "neighborhood" issue, whatever that means. Said one Commission member: "Joe's notion of leadership was you give everybody everything and then they owe you and they'll vote...
Voters elect six members of the school committee. The mayor, chosen by the City Council from among its members, serves as the seventh member and often holds the deciding vote...
...first rule to remember is that you are really only voting for one city councilor and one school committee member. The extra rankings are essentially meaningless unless your number one choice does not need your vote to win or if he has no chance of victory. If that happens, your number two vote will automatically be counted. And if that vote is unnecessary or wasted, the number three vote will be used, and so on. No matter how many candidates you voted for, the ballot will only end up being counted for one of them...