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Mike Lerner is a man in a difficult position--he's working for the tenants, as a full-time staff member of RTH, but he's being paid by the landlord--Harvard, at least until money comes from the state for the housing project. It's Lerner's job to promote the housing, and, necessarily, the power plant. Lerner's not thrilled about the position he's in, and he'd like his project to be more selfsupporting. But to him Harvard is giving the residents about as good a deal as they can expect...
...Look," Lerner explains about RTH's decision to accept Harvard's offer, "if I wanted to have someone drive my car to New York City, and a guy says he is going down to New York and he would be willing to take my car but only by flat-bed trailer, I'll take it, because otherwise my car doesn't get to New York, at all." Lerner says, "Harvard doesn't give away ice in the winter," but the University has taken certain risks that it didn't have to take simply to make sure that the housing project...
Kevin Fitzgerald has only been a state representative for Mission Hill for a few months, but he likes to think he knows what most residents in Mission Hill want. He's also smart enough to realize that RTH can mobilize a couple of hundred voters within the organization against him at the next election...
...John Grady and John Murphy don't buy what Lerner, Fitzgerald or Harvard is saying. Grady lives on the other side of Huntington Ave., the non-RTH side. He represents the Residents United to Stop Harvard, the most vocal opposition to the power plant's construction and to Harvard expansion in Mission Hill. Murphy wants to stop the plant too, but for a different reason. He's Edison's man on the project, an employee assigned almost fulltime to figure out ways to beat the power plant...
...power plant at the August hearing, a "vast majority" of the people on the Hill are against the plant, Grady maintains. Still, he knows that even a stack of 350 petitions by Mission Hill residents strongly against the construction can't match an in-person turnout of RTH at a hearing...