Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thoroughly Democratic city, Cambridge traditionally splits between the "independents" --of local lineage and time-honored political methods--and members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a self-described "good-government" organization whose main concern is the preservation of Cambridge's rent control laws...
Members of the CCA, the only political organization that behaves like a party in the race, hold four of the Council's nine seats, and frequently win majority votes by wooing Councilors Alfred E. Vellucci or Sheila E. Russell, independents who occasionally support the CCA...
...CCA's main goal in this year's election will be to gain a fifth seat on the Council, giving it a majority and the ability to protect rent control for another two years...
...several political observers interviewed this weekend say the prospects for a fifth CCA victory are doubtful. All nine incumbents, including the five "independents," plan to seek re-election and do so with few significant weaknesses, politicians point...
...They all have exceptionally good positions at this point and I don't see any of them being turned out," said Jack Martinelli, CCA president...