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...only possible fight is for the ninth council seat; though she appears to have enough votes, incumbent Sandra Graham could conceivably be ousted by challengers Wendy Abt or Alice Wolf...
Wolf, who totalled more than 5000 votes in her run for school committee two years ago won 1286 votes yesterday, followed by first-time candidate Mary Allen Wilkes, who won 1261 votes with a campaign aimed at condominium owners, and Wendy Abt, who received only 1024 votes despite one of the city's costliest and most intense campaigns...
...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, John St. George and Alfred Vellucci, the dean of the city council whose longstanding compassion has kept rent control alive...
...shot at a fifth seat, it won't be decided until the last two transfers. Clinton or Russell will be battling it out with Abt or Wylie, and it could be extremely close. But the late shift in momentum--and the nagging thought that there may just not be enough CCA voters in the city--indicate it may not come down to the wire at all, that the present equilibrium maintaining its precarious balance on Vellucci, will persist...
...process of calculating this year's property tax bills has already been delayed several months and some challengers have charged council incumbents with intentionally postponing the release of property tax bills until after the elections. Others, such as CCA endorsed candidate Wendy Abt, maintain that the delay costs the city thousands of dollars per day, and is an example of poor management on the part of the city council...