Word: cca
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Councilors Alfred E. Vellucci and Leonard J. Russell are without question the two top contenders for the spot. Both are Independents, though Vellucci traditionally acts as the swing vote on the nine-member council, joining with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) bloc to support the city's controversial rent control program...
Vellucci, though, badly wants to be mayor--he declared his candidacy even before the vote count was finished in the November election, and he has since broken with the CCA on some housing votes to the delight of the Independents...
Results of last week's city council and school baord elections were finalized this week. Strong support for conservative candidates from voters angered by condominium controls denied a city council majority to the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The school board will include three liberals and three conservatives, a change from the previous 4-2 CCA majority. The mayor, to be chosen from among the city councilors, will serve as the seventh member, determining the committee's political slant...
Jane F. Sullivan became the first woman member of the neighborhood-oriented conservative Independent slate to win a spot on the committee in 26 years, edging out Frances Cooper of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The CCA controlled the committee with a 4-2 majority during the last term...
...three Independent seats will probably doom the lay-off policy implemented by the current CCA-dominated school committee. That policy blocked the layoff of minority and many younger teachers; the Independents campaigned on a pledge of lay-off by strict seniority...