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...June, he said the College administration has no plans to make binding a referendum the council ruled advisory on May 15. Issues on the referendum included a term bill hike and the direct election of council officials...
...Epps did say that "the candidates should [run] on the basis of the issues addressed by the referendum...
After months of legal wrangling and years of unsuccessful lobbying of the state legislature and various city councils, rent control opponents won the right to send the issue to a statewide referendum...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on July 14 that a rent control referendum does not violate the state constitution's protection of "home rule," or the right of localities to make decisions for themselves...
While the health-care issue cuts both ways for Wofford, the Clinton factor is a distinct disadvantage. Wofford's campaign committee has gone so far as to prepare a long list of issues on which he and the President differ. "This ((race)) is not a referendum on Bill Clinton," he insists -- though he knows his 1991 victory was widely seen as partly a referendum on George Bush...