1. Reality according to the Cambridge Pols.
2. Patty Nolan.
3. Nadeem A. Mazem.
4. Reality.
a. Nolan and Mazem.
b. Voting activity.
1. Reality according to the Cambridge Pols.
The Cambridge Pols live in their own world. From an objective point of view, a very significant part of the “reality” of the Cambridge Pols are flat out lies.
But part of the technique of lying is to simply omit reality or people with their feet or their minds in reality.
The Cambridge Pols' organization, the Cambridge Machine, and its destructiveness is definitely a small minority in the City of Cambridge, but it is a well organized minority and a very and falsely pious minority.
Two examples appear in sections 2 and 3.
2. Patty Nolan.
There is a letter posted on the Cambridge Chronicle’s page at http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/opinions/letters/x1515010945/LETTER-More-democracy-needed-in-Cambridge.
This is a letter from Charles Teague dated January 14, 2014.
My edits as relevant. Please feel free to read the full text:
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Cambridge — Jan. 6 was not a very democratic day for Cambridge.
On that day, five city councilors chose our mayor/chair of the School Committee for us, picking the councilor who was a distant second with less than two-thirds the No. 1 votes of the first-place finisher. Then the School Committee chose as vice chair [ed: the mayor sits as chair] the man who finished second by an even greater margin to Patty Nolan. Extraordinarily, Nolan alone had nearly one quarter of all No. 1 votes cast in a field of nine candidates.
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Cambridge has a 50 percent decline in City Council voter turnout over the past 40 years. Municipal voting has declined in general, but it is remarkable that in a city of over 100,000 population, a councilor was just elected with less than 1,000 No. 1 votes.
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3. Nadeem A. Mazem.
On January 16, 2014, the Cambridge Machine’s front organization for Cambridgeport held a badly attended meeting.
The guest of honor was the newly elected city councilor, Marc McGovern. This is no surprise. McGovern is one of the few members of the Cambridge Machine who publicly supported the destruction at Magazine Beach.
What was surprising was his listing of the newly elected councilors in his presentation. As I recall, he did not mention Nadeem A. Mazem.
I will include the caveat that this is my memory since I am constantly faced with people with strikingly different memories than mine. I am talking about my memory.
4. Reality.
a. Nolan and Mazem.
I know nothing about the politics of either Patty Nolan or Nadeem A. Mazem.
I know that I have publicly seen Patty Nolan shunned in a ward caucus by the Cambridge Machine pols in the room. That combined with these two comments strikes me as the nicest thing anybody can say about Patty Nolan and Nadeem A. Mazem.
My commendations to Patty Nolan and Nadeem A. Mazem.
You have excellent taste in enemies.
b. Voting activity.
I, myself, would correlate the drastic reduction in voting to the increasing dominance of Cambridge Politics during the period by the Cambridge Machine.
