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...David R. Slavitt, a Leverett House Senior Common Room affiliate and former candidate for state representative, dismissed the council’s plans to raise taxes on Harvard...
...don’t they also pass a resolution asking Santa Claus to be more generous to all the children?” Slavitt scoffed...
Slavitt’s November opponent, Democratic councillor Timothy J. Toomey, was a co-sponsor of the resolution. “Rep. Toomey has been demagoguing this issue for years,” Slavitt said. “He knows that the constitution of the commonwealth protects Harvard against being taxed the way he is proposing. He is simply looking at an enclave of wealth and privilege and he wants to rip it off for the benefit of the undeserving poor...
...David R. Slavitt, a member of the Leverett Senior Common Room, his losing campaign against incumbent State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey will be his last. At the age of 69, Slavitt calls campaigning “a young person’s game.” And he bristles at an editorial in the Cambridge Chronicle, which endorsed his opponent in the 26th Middlesex District but suggested Slavitt consider running for city office. He scoffs at the idea of joining a political body he says is “funnier than the Three Stooges,” adding...
...President George W. Bush garnered the same amount of support in this liberal bastion. “Cambridge is basically out of touch with the country and indeed with the solar system, so it’s kind of a badge of honor to lose here,” Slavitt says...