Word: slates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal political group, has dominated Cambridge politics with a platform of "good government" and a biennial slate of pro-tenant City Council candidates...
...Alliance for Change was formed in July 1993to promote a slate of candidates for the November1993 City Council and School Committee elections.Of its nine council endorsements, three--Russell,Michael A. Sullivan and Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--wonseats on the council. And the December appointmentof Anthony D. Galluccio to succeed Walsh on thecouncil brought the number of Alliance candidatesto four...
...cannot be an organization that claims tobe about change without being willing to definewhat that change is," Cyr says. "They have atheory that you shouldn't have an agenda. Itdoesn't make sense. How is a voter to decide whatthe issues are that separate this slate fromanother...
Voters rank up to nine candidates in order ofpreference, and the liberal group hastraditionally endorsed a slate. Thousands of cityvoters have followed the party line, in anoverwhelmingly Democratic city where traditionalDemocratic-Republican politics are mostlyirrelevant...
...endorsing a full slate of candidates eachelection cycle, even CCA-endorsed candidates wholost would benefit other CCA-endorsed candidates,because the votes of losing candidates aretransferred to the front runners...