Word: slates
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Criticisms from political opponents aside, most Cambridge Convention candidates admit the anomaly of running a slate in which each member is at the same time fighting to get the number one vote for himself and to differentiate himself from the other slate members who support identical issues...
David Sullivan, a Law School graduate running for city council on the slate, said "the system is bad in that sense--it creates an incentive to find minor points of difference and then blow them up." Sullivan, as well as the other convention candidates, insists that although the tensions exist, the Convention unity can withstand them. Every Convention candidate interviewed said that he or she can work with any candidate on the slate...
Whatever the accomplishments of Cambridge reformers, the Convention's critics reject the whole idea of a slate. David Clem, independent candidate for city council, said last week the platform "locks the candidates into positions" without enabling them to respond to new evidence bearing on the issues. Clem, who ran with the CC '75 slate, says he wants to "maintain integrity and flexibility, and avoid restricting the city council into knee-jerk reactions...
City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, Independent incumbent echoes the charges. He said last week of the slate: "These people are controlled, and should be acting on their own consciences...
City Councilor Francis Duehay '55, running for re-election on the slate, said last week he has worked in his position as chairman of the Council Committee on Finance to cut city expenses by abolishing patronage jobs and to introduce professional accounting methods in city budgeting...