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After an amazing display of political ballyhoo, redundant rhetoric, and parliamentary chaos, a confused Cambridge City Council last night defeated a proposal for a non-binding rent control referendum by a vote of 5-3, with one councillor voting "present...
...City Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, who favors some kind of a rent control bill for Cambridge, said last night that she and three other pro-rent councillors may make an offer to get some kind of referendum onto the ballot. She declined to elaborate, saying that she had not yet consulted the other councillors about the future of the issue...
...City. Though the City's elections are non-partisan, attempts are sometimes made to arrange electoral coalitions. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), for example, encourages its supporters to give all their votes to endorsed candidates pledging to follow its "good government" politics. Yet each of the CCA councillors-who always number four-can be identified, without too much difficulty, with one or more particular blocs of CCA type voters. The specific backing of each "independent" (non-CCA) councillor can be even more easily identified...
Thus, PR-and the lack of any real political parties in local politics-produces a council with little cohesiveness. Each councillor tends to look after the affairs of his own particular turf. "What about the children of East Cambridge? Don't they have a right to play too?" Councillor Alfred E Vellucci-a vocal foe of the universities-has many times roared when a playground for another section of the City is under discussion...
Since Mayor Walter J. Sullivan is out of Cambridge, calling a special meeting would be up to Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, who serves as vice-mayor. Vellucci was not available for comment last night...