Showing posts with label Leland Cheung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leland Cheung. Show all posts

August 11, 2014

Cambridge City Councilor Withdraws Suggestion To Legalize Cocaine




[From article]
“When Leland was young and stupid, he was young and stupid,” spokesman Frank Perullo told the Herald when asked if Cheung ever used cocaine, heroin or marijuana.


Cambridge MA City Councilor, Leland Cheung

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2014/08/cheung_sounds_like_bush_after_drug_remarks_on_reddit

Cheung sounds like Bush after drug remarks on Reddit
Saturday, August 9, 2014
By: Matt Stout
Boston Herald

January 21, 2014

Cambridge Councilor Explains His Vote



[From article]
I learned that the opportunity we enjoy carries the responsibility to protect it — you can’t have a government for the people, by the people, if the people don’t show up.
[. . .]
I’m admittedly more hesitant to share the second half of that story.
[. . .]
I’ll never forget how policies I knew would hurt immigrants like my father were couched in terms of fostering independence and self-reliance; how ideas that would strip people’s freedoms were reframed as protecting liberty; and most memorably, how to feign concern while delaying progress and obfuscating the truth by blaming the budget.
[. . .]
I enrolled at the Harvard Kennedy School to figure out my own political philosophy derived from first principles, not political messaging.
[. . .]
I’ve made sure to let my progressive values guide my policy decisions and maintained my disdain of the Republican playbook for being long on talk and short on action.
[. . .]
If we don’t at least try, then we’re no better than the Republicans in D.C. who say they care about equal opportunity but refuse to fund the educational programs that create equal opportunity.

Councilor Cheung is correct about citizen participation, but fails to recognize that some of his Council colleagues disagree. (Leland Cheung, GUEST COMMENTARY, Cambridge Chronicle, Jan 21, 2014) They discourage citizen participation, unless they agree with the policies of the politicians. Recently the Democratic Governor of New York declared that conservatives (not Republicans) should leave his state. Cheung acknowledges that politicians deceive voters and taxpayers, without giving examples. It is not clear why he needed to enroll in Harvard's Government school to learn about politics, especially his own. Do credentials bring self awareness? He states his values guide policy decisions,and that he got some of his values from his father who is a Republican. Cheung disagrees with Republicans about funding education. Did he ever consider the idea that if the U.S. Department of Education was abolished, more taxpayer money would be available for schools and education? He does not mention the role of teachers unions (and the other seven unions with which the School Department must negotiate) in making school policies. Does the pervasive negative attitude among Harvard University toward public school graduates influence his education values and policies?

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x110126828/CHEUNG-COLUMN-Immediate-plan-needed-for-universal-pre-K

By Leland Cheung/GUEST COMMENTARY
Cambridge  Chronicle
Posted Jan 21, 2014 @ 02:03 PM

January 11, 2010

Elementary Mr. Watson


[This letter was published with correction in the Weekly Dig on January 20, 2010]

Focusing on Leland Cheung (Fresh Faces, Weekly Dig, January 6, 2010, Page 6) you say, Larry "Ward was the city's newest councilor, elected in February in a special election." Ward became city councilor after a recount of the votes from November 2008. [It was 2007--Weekly Dig Ed.] Councilor Anthony Galluccio won a special election replacing Jarrett Barrios as state senator, then resigned from the council. With the open seat the Cambridge election commission recounted the votes redistributing Galluccio's votes according to the rules of proportional voting. It is all very simple but not as simple as stated in your report.

http://weeklydig.com/news-opinions/news-us/201001/fresh-faces

FRESH FACES
Will new pols mean new government? (nah)
Weekly Dig
By CARA BAYLES

December 7, 2009

A Student's View of the World


The Student-City-Councilor says, "Cambridge has a City Council/City Manager form of government. The City Council, as the legislative branch of government for Cambridge, is responsible for policy. The City Manager, serving as the executive branch, is hired to oversee day-to-day management and operations for the city. In Cambridge, the City Manager performs the functions we see the mayors of larger cities elected to perform."

That may be the theory but in practice the City Manager makes policy and seeks approval from the spineless obsequious councilors. Does Mr. Cheung understand that he is a student too regarding how the city government works?

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1682952024/Guest-commentary-Fair-honest-process-key-to-choosing-the-next-mayor-of-Cambridge

Fair, honest process key to choosing the next mayor of Cambridge
By Leland Cheung
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Dec 07, 2009 @ 07:32 AM
Last update Dec 07, 2009 @ 05:16 PM