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Opponents of PR insist that the system exerts a permanent divisive influence on the City. Instead of a coalition of interests, the majority ought to rule, they say. What they propose to replace PR with is the traditional non-partisan system of citywide primaries and general elections. In the primary the 18 candidates receiving the highest totals would be nominated for the general election; of these, nine would win in November...
Although he is a member of the Socialist Workers Party, Horowitz is not running on a party label because Cambridge city elections are non-partisan...
...elections. The Senate bill waived the Hatch Act, which bars civil servants from partisan political activity. Republicans in the House objected. They claimed that the record of clean government in Washington was partially a result of the Hatch Act. The Republicans won. The House bill allows participation only in non-partisan elections. And in a city where four out of five registered voters are Democrats, the Democratic Congress insists on partisan elections...
...people are what he calls "baptized Democrats"--they're born Democratic, they die Democratic, and in between they vote Democratic. But in Cambridge city elections, which are non-partisan, you don't win only on party (eight of the nine councillors are Democrats), you win on personality and political favors...
Officials of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, who originally thought of a teach-in at Harvard to rally support for the next Saturday's protest march in Washington, and suggested the idea to faculty members, did not seem disturbed at the non-partisan aspect of Wednesday's meeting. "The straight facts ought to convince people to be on our side," one said...