Word: reeveses
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A Galluccio victory did not seem to be in the cards with Kathleen L. Born only one vote short of the needed five to be elected in the first two rounds of voting. Then, as acting mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 mounted a surprising bid to take the lead with...
First, Decker and Reeves--both unaffiliated progressives--switched their votes from Born to Reeves. In the next vote, Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) councillor Braude defected from CCA member Born to Reeves as well.
But Reeves' Valentine's Day soon turned sour. In the next few hours, as the council hammered out a final draft of a Linear Park down-zoning ordinance in North Cambridge, Galluccio, an Independent, persuaded CCA councillors Braude and Davis and Independents Maher and Sullivan to elect him mayor.
In the last vote for mayor, Decker and Reeves switched back to Born's camp, but Davis and Braude stuck with Galluccio.
In the vice mayor's election, Davis, Braude, Galluccio and Toomey voted for Davis, while Maher, Decker, Reeves and Sullivan voted for Maher and Born voted for herself. Toomey then immediately switched his vote to Maher, making him vice mayor and giving the council a full Independent slate as its...