Word: maher
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Perhaps the most surprising political gain last week was made by councillor David Maher. Maher, who garnered the least votes in the November election, only narrowly edging out veteran council member Katherine Triantifillou, became the next vice mayor last Monday night. This former member of the school committee is not a complete unknown, but his abilities will be tested in this new role...
...half hours later, after receiving the additional votes of Jim Braude, Henrietta Davis, David P. Maher and Michael A. Sullivan, Galluccio was sworn in as the city's first mayor of the 21st century, putting a dramatic end on a whirlwind night of backroom politics where mayoral votes were exchanged for political ambitions...
...Reeves' Valentine's Day soon turned sour. In the next few hours, as the council hammered out a final draft of a Linear Park down-zoning ordinance in North Cambridge, Galluccio, an Independent, persuaded CCA councillors Braude and Davis and Independents Maher and Sullivan to elect him mayor...
...vice mayor's election, Davis, Braude, Galluccio and Toomey voted for Davis, while Maher, Decker, Reeves and Sullivan voted for Maher and Born voted for herself. Toomey then immediately switched his vote to Maher, making him vice mayor and giving the council a full Independent slate as its leadership for the next two years...
...think it's great we have a timely resolution to this, even though it's 1:30," Maher said...