Word: cca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cumbersome process of proportional voting slowly turned out the results of Cambridge's November 6 election: the conservative Independents captured a 5-4 majority on the city council and battled to a deadlock with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for control of the school committee...
Cambridge voters thus threw out the liberal CCA majority on the city council and replaced it with a strong show of support for the more conservative Independents...
...redistribution revealed two major surprises in Cambridge voting trends--the strength of CCA School Committeeman David A. Wylie and the liberal nature of Dominic H. Christofaro's supporters. Christofaro was widely regarded as the most conservative CCA-endorsed candidate and some observers had expected his voters would support Independent candidates with their tertiary votes...
Superintendent of Schools Alflorence Cheatham, whom the CCA brought to Cambridge from Chicago in 1972, appears to command the support of a majority of the new committee...
...CCA candidates ran on a pledge to support him, and Koocher said yesterday, "I won't be Cheatham's rubber stamp, but there is no way I can forsee firing...