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...Taxin said the meetings were originally intended to "indoctrinate" council representatives in an effort to gain votes. But he added that he soon shifted the focus of the meetings because he thought an informational approach would be more useful to first-year representatives...
...Taxin said that nearly all of those invited came to the gatherings, which were held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Council members who attended said that Taxin spent most of the 45-minute sessions explaining the nuts and bolts of council committee work...
...little suspicious at first," said Adam G. Wolff '94, a council member who represents the Canaday/Union district. Instead, he said that Taxin "didn't sell himself at all. It was a nice chance to get to know people on the council...
Some of the attending council members added that the gatherings made them look favorably on Taxin's candidacy...
Rico Reyes, Taxin's only opponent for the vice chair position, conceded that his opponent's strategy might prove effective, but said that the meetings were largely irrelevant to the position both are vying...