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Crane said he had "no doubt that PR has given us minority representation and majority government." "It's been a great safety valve for Cambridge," he observed...
McKenna called PR "a ridiculous form of government" and added, "The sooner we do away with it, the better." He expressed the hope that the legislature would vote along party lines, since almost two-thirds of the Senators and Representatives are Democrats...
Peabody returned the PR bill Friday without his signature, explaining that there were already enough questions to be put on the November ballot and that present law allowed another referendum in November...
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...