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On the first Monday of the new year, five City Council members declared their aspiration to ascend to the top spot in Cambridge politics: Henrietta J. Davis, Marjorie C. Decker, David P. Maher, Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, and E. Denise Simmons.
But many agree that such drawn-out complications should be curtailed in future mayoral elections to ensure that preventable delays do not disrupt the city’s smooth sailing—and civic leaders have proposed a variety of amendments to a clearly troubled selection process.
With more than half of the nine-member City Council signed up for the race, each candidate faced the daunting task of garnering at least five votes from their fellow councillors to be elected mayor.
At the end of that January night, Maher commanded a slight lead with three votes—an insufficient number to secure the mayorship.
“I’m ready to vote as often as I need to until we as a group can choose a mayor,” said council member Sam Seidel at that first meeting. “It’s going to take a lot more...