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Bergman recommended shortening the time span for required residency to three months, making it harder for outsiders to take city jobs and move into the city, while giving a greater advantage to job-seekers who already live here. Neil Rohr, a resident and Cambridge Rainbow organizer, also had doubts about making people move to Cambridge after a year. "That's not hiring Cambridge people, that's hiring people and making them Cambridge residents," he said...
Some people thought that upper-level city employees, if not everyone on the Cambridge payroll, should be subject to a residency requirement. "They ought to have to live with the decisions that they make," Rohr said...
...Neil Rohr of Cambridge Rainbow described the organization's endorsement process as "extensive." The group has an election task force that interviews candidates and then forwards recommendations to endorsement meetings of the organization's general membership...
...Rohr said the Rainbow endorsement process is still underway, and that there may be more endorsements in the coming weeks. The endorsements are based on a commitment to "equity and access" to government services, housing and jobs...
...Rohr said endorsements can make "a notable difference to non-incumbents." For incumbents, he said, the endorsement is less important than the adverse publicity and effect for a non-endorsement.Crimson File PhotoMayor KENNETH E. REEVES '72, endorsed by Cambridge Rainbow, is also courting...