Word: cca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election this fall should revolve around the split in the Cambridge Civic Association over the election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo as city manager. The CCA-endorsed council members split down the middle in the December 1965 vote with former mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney against DeGuglielmo. Councillor Thomas Coates and Councillor Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler voting...
Because the feud is so bitter, most active CCA members will choose up sides next fall and throw their time and dollars to particular councillors regardless of the parent organizations position. Why all the fuss, then, over the CCA's formal stand...
...association does not provide direct financial support to candidates, but its endorsed slate--advertised throughout Cambridge by billboards, mass mailings, and election-day handout cards--serves as a guide for a large number of uninformed voters. "There are thousands of people who pick up these things and vote for CCA candidates as the good guys," says one old hand...
...size of this group of blind voters is unknown. Many people who followed the straight slate in the past are probably aware of the split and may change habits next November. The endorsement still has value, however, and most observers believe it is needed by three of the current CCA councillors: Coates, Mahoney, and Mrs. Wheeler. (Crane, it is conceded, can easily win without the CCA...
Whatever the outcome, however, this particular dispute has revived the CCA by dividing it: many inactive but interested members have come back into circulation. Yet, in the swiftness of events, one thing seems to have been overlooked. For the past quarter century, the CCA has relied on the skills of Crane and DeGuglielmo to anchor their Council delegations. Both men are in their fifties, and regardless of who wins this time, he cannot dominate City Hall for the next quarter century. Right now, the CCA has no one of equal skill to take over...