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...buzz word for Abt and Wilkes supporters seems to be "flexibility." "We want to send a message to the CCA," says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...Such attention most likely will exacerbate a trend seen in recent months--the increasing disenchantment of many, even in the traditional CCA coalition, with "extreme stands" on housing issues. The question first arose when David Sullivan last spring tried to add new teeth to the anti-condo ordinance. Grumblings about "going too far" were soon heard, and the furor that surrounded attempts to prosecute some condo purchasers were effective weapons not only for Independent slate councilors but also for Wilkes. Though councilor Saundra Graham stuck staunchly behind Sullivan, West Cambridge representatives of the traditional CCA like Francis H. Duehay...
Four or five years ago, there would have been few outsiders to challenge moderation in the CCA on housing issues. In the last few years, though, tenants--not the homeowners that make up the traditional CCA--have become well-organized and increasingly politically powerful. David Sullivan can claim credit for much of that transformation; he will reap the fruits of it tomorrow with a strong showing. But the new power means the CCA will not be allowed to drift slowly to the right. If it does, tenants will increasingly distance themselves from it--there will be more Wendy Abts...
Like Question #2, the third non-binding referendum is expected to attract more than the usual share of student voters to the polls tomorrow. That's good news for city liberals--members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) alate--who traditionally have relied on student support to win election to the city council and school committee...
Candidates for seats on the next school committee disagree among themselves about at sharply on the issue of how to dismiss teachers as the current school administration and the CTA. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) currently holds five seats on the seven member school board, and the five seats of the seven member school board, and the five candidates the progressive-oriented slate is fielding in tomorrow's election support affirmative action and disagree with strict seniority-based dismissal guidelines. The more conservative Independent candidates tend to back the stance of the teacher's union against preserving a minority teacher...