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Sound trucks heralding the merits of individual candidates and attacking or defending PR continued to roam the streets. For the third or fourth consecutive day, drivers in the Vellucci motorcade leaned on their horns. Neon lights in the rear windows of several cars kept on blinking for Councilor Walter J. Sullivan...
Today the voters of Cambridge will cast their ballots to elect a new City Council and School Committee and to decide the fate of Proportional Representation (PR). Polls open at 8 a.m. and close...
...result of the conflict over PR is even harder to judge. Although the city has endorsed the electoral system by increasing majorities several times in the past 20 years, the very strong anti-PR campaign of the last few months may have been enough to turn back the clock...
...exactly the present system which replaced the corrupt machine of twenty years ago and brought to Cambridge a truly representative citizen government unique in any American city. Although its few but well organized opponents claim it to be "unfair," Proportional Representation (PR) ensures exactly what these persons do not want--a fair, non-party, non-primary electoral system where the individual voter can choose those candidates who most clearly embody the issues and traits which he desires in his government. Under this system, the city has made tangible progress, both socially and economically. Significant testimony to this progress...
Elected under PR, the present Councilors and members of the School Committee are not professional politicians. For this reason, perhaps, Cambridge has remained apart from the entanglements and corruption synonymous with Massachusetts politics. Those people now organized to abolish PR are just those who seek to profit by the restoration of the machine to Cambridge. Significantly, the Cambridge Young Democrats, the most vigorous opponents of PR, are an ad hoc group formed recently only for the purpose of fighting the present system. In the ranks of these would-be revolutionaries are men such as John Briston Sullivan, whose chance...