Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal contact with voters is the most important part of local elections, Wolf says, because the city's proportional representation (PR) election system forces candidates to base their campaigns largely on popular appeal and neighborhood support. In PR elections, voters rank all of the candidates in order of preference--one, two, three...
...resident of the Agassiz neighborhood, Reeves says he advocates strong enforcement of the city's rent control and anti-condominium conversion laws; committed to stabilizing...
Hugh Adams Russell '64--42, architect and gay activist; City Democratic Committee; 10-year member Board of Zoning Appeals; Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District working committee...
Renae Scott--34, administrator for a non-profit, foundation; chair, Graham and Parks School steering committee; board member, Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House...
While Sullivan has widespread support from the city's tenant constituency, he lacks a strong neighborhood base and has traditionally relied on student votes. In the last election he was the eighth candidate elected, and student votes almost certainly provided the winning margin. Giving David Sullivan your number one vote and supporting the rent control slate is the best thing a Harvard student can do for Cambridge tomorrow...