Word: turkel
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...unexpected change in the results of the recount is that Alfred B. Fantini, who had originally placed second trailing first place candidate Alice B. Turkel by eight votes, gained enough votes in the recount to place him first by two votes...
Members of the School Committee claimed that Turkel and the other Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed members of the Committee arranged for Segat to stay home in order to delay the vote...
This, some claimed, would allow Turkel to introduce and pass her amendments at the last minute, without sufficient debate. They said Turkel would then be able to pass a version of the Controlled Choice plan tailored to her own agenda...
...Turkel said she postponed the vote because she wants to introduce a set of amendments to the plan, and feared she would not have the votes to pass it without Segat’s support...
Some claimed that Turkel has not adequately explained her amendments in public so that she could keep them under wraps until the last minute...