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Slavitt’s November opponent, Democratic councillor Timothy J. Toomey, was a co-sponsor of the resolution. “Rep. Toomey has been demagoguing this issue for years,” Slavitt said. “He knows that the constitution of the commonwealth protects Harvard against being taxed the way he is proposing. He is simply looking at an enclave of wealth and privilege and he wants to rip it off for the benefit of the undeserving poor...
City Council member Anthony D. Gallucio said Harvard has not adjusted its in-lieu-of-taxes payment to Cambridge in over a decade. He and fellow Council member Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., will present a resolution tonight asking Cambridge’s top city lawyer to consider the legality of measures that would compel Harvard to pay a heftier tax bill...
...David R. Slavitt, a member of the Leverett Senior Common Room, his losing campaign against incumbent State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey will be his last. At the age of 69, Slavitt calls campaigning “a young person’s game.” And he bristles at an editorial in the Cambridge Chronicle, which endorsed his opponent in the 26th Middlesex District but suggested Slavitt consider running for city office. He scoffs at the idea of joining a political body he says is “funnier than the Three Stooges,” adding...
...Representative Toomey values his seat in the House and takes every seat seriously,” Glidden said...
...Toomey took 87 percent of the vote to Slavitt’s 13 percent in the district comprised of East Cambridge and part of Somerville...