Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt the large turnout of McCarthy supporters indirectly aided the Brennan group. But it was probably their freshness that decisively influenced the voters. "The ward elections throughout Cambridge illustrated a widespread desire for new faces," observed Herbert F. Mattson, a popular new state Democratic committeeman who just won his position by a 4-1 margin. According to Mattson, the city and ward committees are traditionally do-nothing and lackadasical, and the election results were a reaction to this practice...
This process of upsets began four years ago when insurgents won control of Wards 4, 6, 7, and 8 (Cambridge has 11 wards). This year the major changes occurred in Wards 1, 5, 9, 10, and 11. In Ward 1, Democratic City Committee Chairman Edward Stewart Jr. topped the balloting, but an opposing slate gained majority control of the Ward Committee. An insurgent group swamped the incumbents in Ward 5. The victors included James Washington Jr., a semi-professional basketball player and social worker who spoke for the City's black community before the city Council last Thursday and last...
...significant are ward committees anyway? Not very. The committees, which have four-year terms, do send delegates to the state Democratic convention in 1970. (Brennan's group in Ward 9, for example, will probably send three delegates to the convention in 1970 based on the ward's democratic voting totals in the last guber-natorial contest). Otherwise, the committees have little legal force except deciding some minor patronage jobs: they nominate polling place officers to the City Election Commissioners...
...Ward committees can take positions on issues, but most of them--at least in Cambridge--don't do anything," Mattson said. He personally hopes to stir ward interest in a state senate redistricting bill, which, in his words, "makes hash of Cambridge." Matson added that "the people who are behind the bill in the Statehouse are candidates patronage jobs concerning election officials...
SAMUEL H. Beer, professor of Government and Democratic Committeeman for Ward 8, believes that state legislators usually do not like to deal with ward committees. "A state politician wants to have ward committees in his hip pocket; otherwise they can be a thorn in his side," Beer said, noting that ward committee-members often oppose legislation in the primaries...