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More than a hundred city tenants voting in a convention yesterday decided not to endorse Wendy Abt in her bid for city council, a move that shocked some traditional city liberals and may indicate the beginning of a rift between them and more militant tenant advocates...
...Abt--who won the endorsement of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) in midsummer--received only a scattering of votes at the Rent Control Task Force convention yesterday. She is the first candidate in recent memory to be endorsed by the CCA and yet not win the backing of the Task Force...
...believe that the CCA will be disappointed and shocked," Abt, who had pledged to favor rent control and limits on condominium conversion, said after the vote...
...balance may be the ninth seaf and Wylie's reelection chances. The low man on the CCA totem pole in 1979. Wylie is cast as a likely fifth-finisher among state liberals this time around, although even if the CCA gains the seat, he may have to fight Abt and Preusser for its possession...
...will field seven strong candidates--incumbents David Wylie, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham, and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, former city councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, current school committee member Alice Wolf, and well-known State Senate candidate Wendy Abt. The more conservative Independent block will probably be led by four incumbents--Walter Sullivan. Thomas Danchy, Leonard J. Russell, and Alfred E. Vellucci--and a former councilor, Daniel Clinton...