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Depending on who you listen to, State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge) has been either a long-time advocate of tenant and worker rights or an ineffectual politician relying on the force of his personal popularity to stay in office...
Koocher says Thompson won by a very slim margin in the 1980 vote, which had a voter turnout of only eight percent. "Alvin's defeat of Saundra was a totally unexpected victory, a major upset," Koocher says. "Alvin understands the principle to get along, go along and pay your dues. Alvin certainly paid his dues...
...Alvin's style is not to be threatening of intimidating but conciliatory," Koocher says. "White, blue-collar Cambridge voters have always been comfortable with Alvin, as opposed to your traditional blue-collar voters who weren't comfortable with Saundra Graham. Alvin's political roots are more traditional...
...Many people would like to see him more active, particularly in these times where the liberal agenda is under attack from conservatives in this society," adds Lee, a leading prorent control advocate in the period last fall before rent control's abolition. "Alvin hasn't been there to do that...
...agrees. "The supermarket is gone, and Alvin didn't do anything to keep it," Lee says. "Alvin certainly did not do enough to keep Stop and Shop in Cambridge...