Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them to build the infrastructure of those campaigns [during the summer]--and we'll see how strong those infrastructures are in the next few weeks when they turn on the gas," said J. James Marzilli, executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The CCA is sponsoring a slate of five candidates who support rent control...
Four councilors of nine are now members of the CCA. A fifth, independent Alfred E. Vellucci of East Cambridge, supports rent control while winning votes from a working-class base that has kept him in office since...
Vellucci's swing vote is sufficient to keep about 15,000 apartment rents below market rate. But the CCA's ambition extends to a fifth Council seat. The organization wants to win votes on rent control that require two-thirds majorities, and to legislate without Vellucci's support...
Aside from Vellucci, the other independents are often as different from each other as they are from the CCA. Many are conservatives from political families that claim a myriad of loyalties--like incumbents Sheila T. Russell, Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, Jr., and Thomas W. Danehy...
Marzilli says that his organization is not a "monolithic block of Cambridge brahmins," but he admits that the CCA has not "tried as hard as we should to meet [blue collar ethnics] on their