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...CCA currently has a five to four majority on the City Council, where it attempts to promote neighborhood interests despite the more development-oriented stance of the city manager and the Independents. However, it is unclear how long the group will be able to keep its majority...
...CCA President R. Philip Dowds refuses to say whether Reeves and Cyr have requested or will receive the CCA's endorsement in this fall's elections. "The CCA is having endorsement interviews with a variety of incumbents and other candidates," Dowds says...
...addition, Councillor Alice K. Wolf's April announcement that she would not seek re-election has left the CCA without its strongest candidate and opened a seat in an election which incumbents usually...
Wolf received the highest number of votes in the last city council election, with about 18 percent of the "number one" votes, according to David R. Leslie '69, executive director of the CCA. These votes, which are very important under Cambridge's proportional representation system, are now up for grabs...
There is also a strong feeling among some that the CCA has grown apart from the people it is supposed to represent. And some claim the CCA's leadership, particularly Dowds, attempts a stranglehold on its members. For example, the organization's platform dictates that its members must act in consensus on the issue of the city manager--a plank which Cyr and Reeves disregarded...