Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least the past decade, the Council has been divided between four conservative Independents, with their commitment to neighborhood and business concerns, and four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members, who favor rent control and limits on development...
...think there's any way the CCA can capture the hearts of the people of East Cambridge," says Independent Councillor William H. Walsh...
...CCA wins five seats--as it last did in 1971--it will most likely use its clear majority to enact stricter curbs on developers. It could also refuse to renew the contract of City Manager Robert W. Healy, an Independent ally, and it might investigate Independent-dominated city departments such as Inspectional Services...
Frances Cooper, a CCA school committee member, says she supports Graham for her experience. "I don't want to make a negative comment on Al Thompson," she says, but adds that he "has no elected experience that I know of." Cooper adds, "I'm having a hard time seeing how he could jump in [the race] without that experience...
...after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Thompson says he chaired the Cambridge Black Citizens Committee (CBC) that formed to fight local racism. At that time, he says, "Blacks were not allowed to ride in police cars," and Thompson worked with James Vaughnberg of the CCA to integrate police cars...