Word: cca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political facts guaranteed by Proportional Representation is just that--proportional representation. For this reason, Cambridge's only partisan civic group, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) has never succeeded in electing more than four of its endorsees to the nine-member City Council. Thus, city government has maintained a balanced representation between the Harvard-M.I.T.-Brattle St. constituency and the rest of Cambridge. This has been a healthy balance...
...recent interview, Gustave Solomons expressed what can be taken as the CCA campaign platform. He pledged continued progress: "We have had two good years in the School Committee. Because we had a CCA majority, we did not have the fusses that we had in the committee prior to this one." He praised two very recent curriculum advances: "We have put in a language lab, and have added an M.I.T. physics course to both Rindge and Cambridge High and Latin." And, he pledged two more reforms, both however, somewhat ill-defined: to raise teachers' salaries to the level of those...
Against what is necessarily the stand-pat-and-advance electioneering of the CCA, stand those whose only chance of election to the committee lies in attacking with recrimination. Quite possibly, also, the lack of vitriol in the other campaign--for the City Council--relates directly to the lack of a present CCA majority there. Because the CCA cannot claim complete responsibility for the political situation of the last two years, its enemies cannot cover it with the entire blame...
...School campaign, the anti-CCA attack is of the I'm-not-really-against-the-CCA, but . . . variety. A major proponent of this line is Joseph L. Carson, a party Democrat also very active in the campaign to repeal Proportional Representation. To Carson the Civic Association is hypocritical and elitist. He hinted broadly in answer to an opening question that the CCA was responsible for an electoral system "which becomes a lottery at a certain stage . . . . I don't think the people are stupid, but there is little or no grasp of issues--if people are operating under a system...
...only major educational issue on which Carson attacked the CCA was "the old political football." After the CCA required that an exam be taken by all candidates for the headmaster-ship of City schools, Carson alleged the organization's majority refused (for other reasons) to recognize a Mr. Sweeny, a non-local man who topped the exam. "I would relinquish the prerogative that the School Committee has over candidates once they have passed the exam," he emphasized...