Word: cca
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Since the early 1970s, the council has been split between candidates running on the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) platform and those running as independents. Although the independents currently hold a 5-4 majority, independent Mayor Vellucci often sides with the CCA, producing an uneasy balance of power between the parties...
...election will determine not only tangible things, like how many rent control housing units we have, but what kind of city Cambridge is to live in," Desch says, adding that ultimately the election will hinge on who works harder--the independents or the CCA-endorsed candidates...
...CCA has not had majority in the council since the 1970s...
...candidate not seeking CCA backing, businessman Alan D. Bell, says he fears that the media and the publicity efforts of other candidates will blow the issue of rent control out of proportion...
...listening to both sides, and there are parts of it I would agree with and parts I would disagree with," says candidate Timothy Toomey, a School Committee member who has not yet decided whether to ask for CCA endorsement. Toomey says he is considering developing an alterna-alternative plan that would combine elements of both sides...