The Cambridge City Council debated on Monday whether or not to change the system for electing the mayor and vice mayor for the city, leading to a heated discussion over the role of the city's leader.
Councillors Jim Braude and Timothy P. Toomey, Jr. sponsored an
order to allow the popular election of the mayor by the citizens of Cambridge. Under the current system, the mayor and vice mayor are both elected by a majority of the council at the beginning of each two-year session, months after people go to the polls in November to vote for the rest of the council.
Braude and Toomey proposed allowing council candidates to choose
to run for mayor on the November ballot. Cambridge residents would then
vote separately from those choices, with the highest vote-getter becoming
mayor, and the second highest becoming the vice mayor.
Several residents spoke in favor of the measure, saying it would end an often torturous process in which political bickering and personal
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