Word: cca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russell said that the feeling among the residents at the meeting, including Pebble Gifford and Oliver Brooks of the Harvard Square Task Force. David Clem of the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation. James Harold of the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group and James Stanton of the CCA, was that Harvard needs personnel "who know more about community relations," than the officials currently employed...
John Moot '43, an ex-president of the CCA from Coolidge Hill, says he believes that proportional representation, with its emphasis on minority rule, is the scourge of the coalition makers. He says that p.r. enables "a group of 300 citizens to throw their weight around," and forces certain councilors to play to small interest groups--causing fragmentation that hampers progress...
...since Crane departed from the scene no one person has been able to pull either neighborhood or business groups together. Moot notes that the CCA, once broad, powerful and shrewd, today is composed of inexperienced politicians, many incapable at the moment of mounting a coalition. And the community groups for the most part have yet to exercise the coherence or the political acumen to throw their weight behind a certain issue and get it done...
...this vacuum that Crane decided to fill. The CCA backed candidate fought his way onto the council and with the help of political and collegiate pal Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29, a man with Crane-like credentials, wasted no time in manipulating Cambridge's first city manager, John Atkinson, into making 13 years of yes-man decisions...
Although the retired Eisemann now claims to have exercised no interest in Harvard Square politics and never held a position in the Chamber of Commerce, several Cambridge reformers insist that he was a force even Crane had to reckon with. He still exerts influence as treasurer for select CCA candidates on the Cambridge ballot...