Word: abt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come too late to save the city. Fortunately, there are candidates running pledged to support fundamental issues of economic and social justice. They include all members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate--David Sullivan, Francis H. Duehay '55, David Wylie, Saundra Graham, Alice Wolf, Mary Ellen Preusser, Wendy Abt and Robert White. And they also include the standard-bearers of the city's tenant convention--besides most of the CCA group, the tenant slate includes Alvin Thompson, Brian Feigenbaum and Alfred E. Vellucci, the dean of the city council whose longstanding compassion has kept rent control alive in Cambridge...
Francis H. Duehay '55 had raised $11,441 and spent $8358; fellow incumbent David Sullivan had raised $11,588.25 and spent $9888.81. First-time challenger Wendy Abt said last night she had raised about $8500 and spent slightly more than...
...liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate members are traditionally the heaviest spenders in local campaigns, and this year is no exception--Wylie, Wolf, Preusser, Abt, Duehay and David Sullivan have all been endorsed...
...rhetoric about housing is not serving the best interests of the cause they champion. I have met too many elderly poor being squeezed out of their apartments, seen too much dilapidated housing, seen too many moderate income families forced to leave the city to say all is well. Wendy Abt...
...least one more election, the tenuous coalition between liberal and radical, between the CCA and the' tenants, seems likely to last. But it is hard not to look at what happened to Wendy Abt and conclude that a deep rift between the two groups is possible, and that Cambridge politics--traditionally polarized between neighborhood-oriented Independents and the CCA--could become split up among the Independents, the CCA and the tenants...