Word: vellucci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first ballot for mayor, Walter J. Sullivan had four votes, and Alfred E. Vellucci was voting for himself. Vellucci said last night that he had pledged his vote to Sullivan the night before the deadlocked ballotting was to resume after a week's recess. Vellucci's vote would have given Sullivan a majority, but William G. Maher, who had previously voted for Sullivan, shifted to Hayes...
...there had seemed to be a real chance. On the first ballot (taken Jan. 3, after the Council's inauguration), Sullivan had received four votes. His name had been placed in nomination by William G. Maher, a new Councillor who had made a strong and forceful speech. Alfred E. Vellucci, who has a habit of voting for himself, had broadly hinted that he would switch to Sullivan in due course...
Take a look at the Councillors who voted for Hayes and DeGuglielmo: Hayes has only been on the Council since '62; Goldberg since '62; Coates since '64; Maher since last week; and Mrs. Wheeler, with an interruption, since '60. Of the Curry supporters, Crane, Vellucci, and Sullivan have the longest tenure of any current Councillors. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, first elected in 1963, is the sole newcomer, and his loyalty to Curry can be explained, to a large extent, by a long friendship with Crane...
From a feeling of relative isolation and impotence there evolved more purely political complaints. Perhaps Crane and Curry, having worked together so long, actually did pay less attention to the other Councillors (or to some of them). At any rate, it was said that Crane, Vellucci, and, to a lesser extent, Sullivan were getting too many jobs from the city manager's office. Some of the other Councillors wanted...
...past, Cambridge mayoralty elections have dragged on for weeks and months; the balloting two years ago went to 69 votes (more than two weeks) before Vellucci switched from himself to Crane