Word: cca
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Retaining that edge is the traditional job of the CCA, which currently controls four seats. Their margin on the crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
...CCA supporters are counting on different shifts in city voters. One is the rising fear among tenants that rent control is in serious trouble here--in the course of the last two years, most cities in the area have ended rent controls. When they were lifted next door in Somerville, rents soared--a fact to which CCA politicians frequently refer. At the same time, the number of condominium conversions in Cambridge has increased dramatically. Only the frantic legal scrambling of CCA councilors slowed down the condo boom this year, and the prospect of renewed conversions may scare many tenants...
...battle between left and right, however. Even if the split between conservatives and liberals on the council remains the same, faces may change. David Sullivan, who lost by eight votes two years ago, will likely grab one of the nine seats--perhaps at the expense of a brother CCA councilor. Sullivan's large organization, student support, and $10,000 campaign budget have added name recognition to the widespread support earned by ten years of tenant activism, including the drafting of the council's condo control bill. Should Sullivan win, CCA veteran David A. Wylie may be closest to the door...
...outsiders, not firmly aligned with either the independent or CCA camps, may also affect the balloting. David Agee and Douglas Okun don't have the ethnic and neighborhood bases that Vellucci, Danehy and their ilk draw on; their support of a "depolarized" city council may draw some votes, though, from new arrivals in the city--for the most part condo owners, who are less a part of Cambridge machine politics...
...fuss to politics, but for them the situation may get nastier before it gets better. The council this summer approved in principle strict limitations on institutional expansion, and if current alignments are unchanged by the election, the ordinance will surely pass soon. In general, Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates oppose unlimited institutional growth, and many are making it a campaign issue. For once, they are joined by many of their conservative fellow councilors, but the battle against the crimson dragon still is proving one-sided...