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Candidates, whether they are on a slate or not, always campaign for the "number one vote" since two-thirds of the ballots generally don't transfer. There is a minimum of strategic maneuvering because on one ever understands all of the options. Whatever else it does, proportional representation insures that the bookies will never make a killing...
...called independents--these old-style incumbents riding their conservative friendship-building ways into office election after election. If Cambridge was a normal town the "independents" would be the liberal, reform-minded mavericks, and this group of all white, all male traditional politicians would be the ones on the slate...
...dollars is a favorite concern of most of the Independents. Incumbents Fitzgerald and Donald Fantini and challengers David P. Kennedy and Nicholas R. Ragno all base their campaigns on this issue--citing, in particular, high administrative salaries with further raises proposed. Falling enrollments fuel their arguments against the Convention slate, which has supported costly construction projects and designed several new administrative positions...
Among the three groups, the candidates differ only slightly from each other. The Cambridge Convention has endorsed four candidates, an ideal affirmative action slate that includes the only two women and the only black in the school committee selection. Three of the slate members have graduated from or are now studying at Harvard. Glenn Koocher '71 sees himself as more pragmatic than the two women on the Convention slate. His leadership was crucial in the decision to combine Rindge Technical High with Cambridge High and Latin, producing a modern program in which students concentrate in one of five areas...
Charles M. Pierce 75, the black candidate and the only challenger on the slate, was on the committee between 1971 and 1975. After 17 years of industrial employment, Pierce went to the Harvard Extension School for an A.B. in education. His pet program while on the School Committee was occupational education...