Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students voting in Cambridge last fall were confronted with the usual accusations, with the usual slate of 300 candidates, the usual hassles trying to register, and the usual issues: the city manager, rent control, University expansion, and redevelopment...
...sides began to form--primarily between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the conservative Independent slate, with some noise from the radical Grass Roots Organization--it became apparent that the CCA slate was being hurt as much by the incumbent CCA majority council's failure to appoint a new city manager and the inordinate amount of time it took to reach any decision at all on the matter, as by the internal political splits which resulted in the formation of the GRO with Saundra Graham at the head of its slate...
Still, partially out of force of habit, the caucuses stirred themselves out of hibernation briefly this spring to participate halfheartedly in the council elections. Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, put together a conservative slate in consultation with, he said "10 or 20 or 30 people." The liberals, meanwhile, were caught napping and had to get Rosovsky to add liberal nominees to the ballot...
Linda V. Seidel, lecturer on Fine Arts, considered a liberal though not affiliated with any slate, also won election to the council. She defeated a Maass nominee, Judith A. Kates, assistant professor of English...
Since the council's inception in 1970, liberal and conservative caucuses have both nominated slates of candidates every spring. This year, however, only the conservatives nominated a slate and the liberals, caught unprepared, had to ask Rosovsky to add DeVore and Bruneau to the ballot...