TheCambridge Record
City CouncilCouncillors ▸ Mary Ellen Preusser

Mary Ellen Preusser

1 term, 1978-79.

105papers filed60vs their councils100 = the median member306roll calls on record284roll-call events while seated20.8% of 238 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent282votes recorded15of 236 votes on rolls that name each sideagainst the majority

Counts are what the record holds, not what happened: coverage thins the further back you look, and a term with little recovered will show small numbers for everyone who sat in it. The index is the figure to compare between people. It measures this councillor against the others on their own council, so the same gaps sit in the numerator and the denominator and largely cancel. Where this comes from.

Term by term

TermRolePapersIndexRoll callsVotesAgainst
1978–79Councillor1056030628215

Who they voted with

Rated on contested roll calls only, the votes with at least one nay: the council adopts most business unanimously, and agreeing on a unanimous vote says nothing about affinity. Pairs sharing fewer than 10 contested votes are not rated. Agreement across all shared votes, unanimous included, is shown for context.

Most often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
David Wylie66 of 7984%95% of 275 votes
Saundra Graham60 of 7382%95% of 245 votes
Francis Duehay58 of 7379%94% of 264 votes

Least often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Lawrence Frisoli19 of 6330%80% of 218 votes
Kevin Crane27 of 7536%82% of 267 votes
Walter Sullivan35 of 7348%85% of 250 votes