Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could have tried to win the endorsement of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, which dates to the mid-1940s. Like many CCA candidates, Cyr is definitely a young progressive. He is a strong supporter of rent control, which for years has been the main political issue in city politics, and he also has been active in a number of local causes. He founded a group called Toxic Alert which he says chased Arthur D. Little Co. out of the nerve gas business. He has opposed the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. Currently, he is the director of the Community of Elders...
...believes that Cambridge politics centers on class. He maintains that the CCA has been buoyed by wealthy Cambridge liberals who have no contact with Cambridge's blue-collar ethnic base. He notes that he recently ran across one elderly woman who told him straight-faced that Harvard ran the CCA. "She really thought President Bok was making the decisions for them," he says. And Cyr says that impression reflects the estrangement of Cambridge blue collar ethnics from the CCA. As a result, Cyr shunned requests asking him to seek the CCA endorsement...
...CCA's Executive Director J. James Marzilli says that Cyr's decision was not as principled as he would have people believe. "He's got a lot of friends who have a negative gut reaction to the CCA. If he joined with it, he'd lose their votes." But that gut reaction is precisely what Cyr is trying to capitalize...
...says that the CCA has never made the effort to get to know less well-off Cambridge citizens as the independents have. He notes that he has never attended a wake from which Mayor Sullivan was absent. His candidacy is an effort to attract blue collar voters with liberal views away from the conservative independents who have survived on their support...
...councilman's platform acknowledges and is very sympathetic to the concerns of the CCA...