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This year Galluccio only placed 390 votes more than quota. Maher received some boost, but it was too little too late. In the eighth round of balloting, Gordon’s 615 transfer votes went overwhelmingly to Kelley and Seidel...
...political status quo. But by the end of the night, all bets were off. After the first-place votes had been tallied, mouths hung agape in the Cambridge Senior Center, where the city’s political classes gather every two years for the ballot count. Sitting in eighth place—ahead of two council incumbents—was first-time challenger Matthew S. DeBergalis, a then-26-year-old MIT graduate who had focused his campaign on student issues. DeBergalis missed the final cut by 137 votes, but his unexpected success demonstrated that the power of incumbency...
...isn’t taking any chances with this election. His election standings have varied widely over the past two decades. In 1993 and 1995, he led the council with number-one votes—in Cambridge, council candidates are ranked, not selected outright. In 2001, he was eighth by this standard and, in 2003, fifth. Reeves says that despite being a council veteran, he’s always seeking out new voters.“You are always introducing yourself to people who are new,” he says.Reeve’s Friday schedule is packed with...
...rookie Andrew Flynn added. “It was really an important way to end the season.” The freshman class was best represented by its B-Division tandem of Flynn and Lauren Brants, who bounced back from a shaky Saturday performance to edge out Vermont for eighth place with 91 points. “Our problem was that we were inconsistent, but we were satisfied with the way we were sailing when we were doing well,” Flynn said. “We didn’t do too great Saturday afternoon, but we were...
...bootstrapping paid off: the Hornets quickly wrapped up $7.5 million in sponsorship deals from three Oklahoma City--based energy companies, a local bank and the Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper. Within their first month in Oklahoma City, the Hornets sold more than 10,000 season tickets, the eighth best mark in the NBA. "My expectations were not set at the highest end," says NBA commissioner David Stern, "but they've been well exceeded...