Word: voted
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Healy said the absence of a second tenant representative did not really affect the rent control board because the members do not neccesarily vote according to their constituencies. Ellen Semonoff, the board's chair, is neither a tenant nor a landlord and thus has no constituency, Healy said. "She will protect the interests of the right side of the issues...
...There have been no major cases or decisions made," Healy said, and most results have "not neccesarily been a three-two vote...
...Even if I can persuade Ellen Semonoff to vote my way," Connor said, "the best the tenants can ever do is a tie vote." In order to resolve most cases, he added, Semonoff "must make deals with the landlord representatives...
...liberal friends love to theorize about what "false consciousness" drives rural Southerners to vote in opposition to their class interests. "The Democrats are the party of the common man, right? Why don't those rednecks vote for us? Ah, it must be the racism...
...Harvard liberals laugh at people like my neighbors who believe in this stuff. And my neighbors vote for Republicans...