Word: cca
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...candidate receiving a quota of first choices (10 per cent plus one vote of the total voter turnout) is automatically declared a winner in the first stage. Traditionally, only one or two candidates reach quota on the first round. In 1979, Independent Walter Sullivan and Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) member David Sullivan managed the feat...
That political fact of life spawned the city's electoral slates--groups of candidates who run as a team, hoping to pick up support from their collegues' surplus ballots. The CCA slate, a group of 13 (8 for city council and 5 for school committee) candidates who favor rent control, oppose condominium conversion, and support affirmative action, traditionally elects several members on the strength of transfer ballots in the PR system...
...Independent slate, made up of more conservative, neighborhood-oriented candidates, has in the past had some trouble convincing its supporters to play the ranking game. This year, however, the Independents are making a strong bid to follow the CCA's historically successful strategy...
Henrietta Attles, running for her second term on the CCA slate sees the discrepancy in reading scores between Cambridge elementary schools as an important indication of what the School Committee must do during the next years. "With the prospect of another year of 2 1/2 we must concentrate our resources and ensure that each child in our schools gets a basic education...
Frances Cooper, a CCA candidate, says her goal is simple: "To see that each child gets a good quality education in whichever program is best for that child." As a school board member, Cooper says she would try to preserve the choice of programs that the city's schools now offer...