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At the July 27 meeting, council members, with only Michael A. Sullivan dissenting, voted to adopt many of the recommendations in the Anderson Petition.
The petition, which sought to limit commercial development of the area and protect existing residences, had hundreds of supporters in the Cambridge community.
Nobody likes being accosted by a clipboard-carrying activist, however noble the cause. But now you can weigh in on an issue in peace. A visit to www.e-thepeople.com (it launches Aug. 1) lets you search by topic for a petition you might want to sign, start your own petition or...
Hrones also objected to the wording of the ballot, which placed the petition candidates separately at the bottom of the ballot--making alums less likely to vote for him, he said. A petition candidate is one who gets on the ballot by collecting signatures from one percent of voting alums...
This year eight ballot candidates were selected by the Alumni Association. Two, including Hrones, ran by petition.