Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more loosely allied Independents to prevent CCA control of the council, all five of their top candidates would have to win, but the odds againsst them may be made even longer because of the city's peculiar voting system...
Crane's retirement--"I want to devote full time to the practice of law," he said--would seem to give the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) its best chance in several elections to gain a five-seat majority on the nine-member panel...
...CCA will field seven strong candidates--incumbents David Wylie, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham, and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, former city councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, current school committee member Alice Wolf, and well-known State Senate candidate Wendy Abt. The more conservative Independent block will probably be led by four incumbents--Walter Sullivan. Thomas Danchy, Leonard J. Russell, and Alfred E. Vellucci--and a former councilor, Daniel Clinton...
...since a much higher percentage of CCA than Independent "number one" votes usually transfer to other members of the slate, a strong lineup that will draw CCA voters to the polls might be enough to give the liberals a fifth seat...
James E. Cohen '83, head of the HRZL, information branch, said CCA members also passed out the leaflets, which contained a chart linking Isracli arms to "repressive regimes," at MIT. Boston University. Northeastern, and at the Government Center in Boston. Cohen said, one CCA member told him he was paid to leaflet...