Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campbell, who favors PR, introduced a motion to kill the bill. He attributed its defeat to the "unfortunate decision of the Democratic leadership, for various political reasons, to make the bill a party issue." Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), who supported the bill, said he has opposed PR since he was elected to the City Council in 1932. He called it a system of "unproper representation...
Another opponent of PR, Frederick C. O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Young Democrats, hailed the House action as a step toward the end of "mass confusion and majority control...
...Much of the confusion in PR voting is caused by attempts to trick the system," Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, suggested. He said the CCA, which favors PR, would take an active part in supporting it in the referendum...
Campbell said that PR has worked well in Cambridge because the city has many minority groups. Contrasting the system to Boston's plurality elections, he said it permits representation of all points of view in proportion to the size of each group...
...PR has been challenged four times in the last 12 years...