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In December of last year, the Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, a landlord group, collected 93,000 signatures on a petition to place a referendum on the issue on the November 1994 state ballot.
But the landlords say their number is few compared to the ranks of the tenants, who control the Cambridge City Council and the state legislature. That, the landlords say, is why they have had to resort to the petition process.
They submitted the petition to the commonwealth's Secretary of State, who ruled that just under 70,000 of the signatures were valid, leaving the petition 300 short of the required number to place it on the ballot.
The judge put the issue on the ballot, but rent control advocates promptly filed suit in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts against the state Attorney General, who certified the petition and then prepared a summary for placement on the state ballot.
"Many of us have attended club functions andbeen members' 'dates' to many events, whether aHasty Pudding Show or a Fly punching party," readthe text of WAC's original petition, whichappeared as an advertisement in The Crimson lastSeptember.