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Many proponents of Proposition 2 1/2 attributed their victory in part to "overkill" tactics by the measure's op- ponents, including officials who used municipal funds to fight the question and painted scenarios of cities devasated by the loss of public services.
Several CLT members stressed that they won despite having less campaign money than their opponnets, who included municipal unions, the League of Women Voters and the MTA.
In a way, the supporters of Proposition 2 1/2 are right when they term the dire forecasts of municipal leaders "scare tactics." People who aren't scared that cities like Cambridge could be without schools, without services, without police protection should support Propostion 2 1/2. The rest of us, who...
The Massachusetts Municipal Association, a coalition of cities and towns, is working for the amendment because, as one spokesman says, it "will have a double-barreled effect: it will increase local control and promote government accountability."
That argument entails the main objection to Question 5 on tomorrow's ballot. The proposed amendment would ensure that any law imposing additional costs on two or more localities by regulating salaries and other benefits to municipal workers is first approved by the individual communities--unless the legislature passes such...