Cliff Truesdell, a former council candidate appearing on tonight's broadcast of local political television talk show "Cambridge Inside Out," said Triantafillou "has brought it on herself" by being divisive and isolating herself on the council.
"She gambled and she lost and she did not lose graciously" in the 1998 council race for mayor, Truesdell said.
After that loss, Triantafillou resigned from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Cambridge's liberal political party and a longtime endorser of her campaign.
One of Triantafillou's campaign workers said the outcome has left many of the councillor's supporters upset.
"Anthony Galluccio getting that many votes is disgusting," said the supporter who would not give her name, adding that she didn't want to live in the city based on the results.
Maher was upbeat about his chances heading into today's finalization of the results.
"I think that the way the transfers look, it looks very promising," Maher said.
According to local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71, 1,400 CCA "transfer" votes, which are votes transferred from candidates who meet quota--and thus are elected--or from eliminated candidates, are still up for grabs.
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