Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race wide open. The good-government Cambridge Civic Association--which has commanded a four-member minority on the council since the early 1970s--and other liberal groups could make up a progressive majority on the council come next November. But given the edge PR seems to give incumbents, the CCA is facing an uphill battle...
...outgoing councillors--Saundra Graham and David E. Sullivan--are longtime members of the CCA, and the third--Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--is a fierce Independent who is often the council's swing vote. Although CCA members have made up a minority on the council, cooperation with the mayor on rent control and affordable housing issues has allowed them to push through their program in several areas. Vellucci's departure could threaten this balance...
...Rainbow sports a political platform that in some ways echoes the CCA's but in other ways goes beyond it. In particular, its platform calls for reform in the basic structure of Cambridge government, which gives nearly all executive power to a council-appointed city manager...
...fact, voters are likely to find the difference between the Coalition and CCA largely rhetorical--especially since all Rainbow candidates are also CCA-endorsed candidates...
What this adds up to, says Ramseur, is a vigorous shakeup of the city's Plan E form of government, which was instituted in the 1940s to curb corruption and political patronage. It was these reform efforts that led to the creation of the CCA...