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Despite its unsuccessful attempts to delay the decision, the Republican leadership claimed victory in its battle against prolonging rent control...
...Rent control is dead," said Senate minority leader Brian P. Lees (R-East Longmeadow) following the votes. "We have the votes to sustain the veto. The arrogance of the politicians in these communities did not win, the voters...
...Senate voted 19-17 to approve Cambridge's home-rule petition to gradually eliminate rent control for elderly, disabled and low- and moderate-income tenants. The Senate also approved, 19-16, Boston's petition to phase out rent control, but rejected a similar plan from Brookline by a vote...
...House of Representatives approved the petitions last Monday. Yesterday's vote sends the petitions of Boston and Cambridge to the governor's desk. But Weld has repeatedly said he will veto any petitions to maintain rent control. "I don't like any of the ones that have been drafted," he told reporters yesterday...
Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the only three communities in Massachusetts with rent control laws--filed the petitions after the passage last month of Question 9, the ballot initiative to abolish rent control effective on January...