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The City has agreed to begin the process of printing ballorts for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition this week.
If the court upholds the petition, will ballots be ready? McCarthy promised last week they would be, in spite of the City's current flirtation with a competitive bidding statute which seems to rule out signing a contract for the printing of ballots until Nov. 6, the day before the...
The City's case against the CNCV petition is based on a narrow interpretation of the right of popular initiative. The purpose of an initiative petition is to enact a law, not express an opinion, McCarthy argues. The CNCV resolution is clearly beyond the legislative domain of the City of...
Loeser countered that the real purpose of the initative petition is to empower the people to do whatever a city council or other legislative body can do. City councils make a general practice of memorializing on matters over which they have no legislative authority. Therefore, Loeser reasoned, the people can...
Judge Mitchell upheld the broad interpretation of the right of initiative: "I ... rule that whatever the Cambridge City Council may lawfully do of its own motion may be accomplished by citizens of the City of Cambridge by initiative petition...."