Word: samp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People equated the defeat of Plan E with going back to the old ways," Samp says, explaining why Plan E was never abolished...
...order to do so, Samp says, the city would have to hold a convention with elected delegates, who would make a recommendation to the city; the issue would then appear on a ballot, and the residents of the city would vote on the situation...
...never had [a convention]," Samp says. "It would be quite a sales job to convince voters that we would have to have a convention...
...Originally, [the CCA] was formed to bring in all types of political opinion," says Samp. "The problem was that in a city in Mass, the Democrats control the range of government, and if you were to have partisan elections, all you would have would be the majority party electing somebody...
...this era was composed of Democrats from old Cambridge families "who felt that the way to keep their people in power was to elect them in a partisan way," Samp says...