Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four CCA candidates were the highest vote-getters after Sullivan, and will probably be elected if their totals reach the quota required under PR. Alfred Vellucci, who had earlier stated, "I will win by a landslide," was a weak eighth, and may lose his seat on the nine-man Council...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan was leading other candidates for the Cambridge City Council by a substantial margin yesterday. Sullivan was the only candidate whose total at the end of first-choice ballot counting appeared to guarantee him a seat on the Council...
...couldn't knock me off the top of the pile," Mayor Sullivan said in a victory statement. "The citizens of Cambridge believe in Sullivanism and in Sullivan service," he stated. Alan Steinert, former head of the CCA, led a campaign against "Sullivanism," the mayor said, but the fact that the voters of Cambridge kept him on top of the ticket indicates that hey approve of his regime...
...question of PR, which was placed on the ballot and publicized by the Sullivan forces largely to draw attention from the first referendum, the vote was 18,000 to 13,000 in favor of retaining this system of balloting...
Incumbents are almost always reelected, under the PR system. Thus, though Sullivan has lost a moral victory, he and the Councilors will probably retain their Council seats past...