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...heart of Central Square at 649 Mass Ave., volunteers for the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--the good-government municipal slate that has controlled the City Council for the past two years-are working overtime preparing press releases, organizing flyer campaigns and plotting political strategy...
...stake on November 5 will be the CCA's newly-won control of the municipal government. Two years ago, promising to defend rent-control, control development and reform government excesses, the 50-year-old CCA won its biggest election victory ever, taking five of the nine council seats. A sixth councillor sympathetic with many CCA causes-Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--also won election. The last time the CCA ran City Hall...
...going to be a very, very simple kind of election," said CCA Councillor Edward N. Cyr. "What's at stake in this election is progressive government, what's at stake is our two-year-old experiment in democratic government based on the elimination of patronage and responsiveness to local needs...
Independent councillor William H. Walsh agreed that the CCA's two-year record will be the issue, but called those years "a lot of glitz and no substance." The Independents are neighbourhoodbased candidates who favor development and draw support from longtime Cambridge residents...
Over the two years, the CCA has appointed police commissioner Perry Anderson to reform the department, introduced a controversial rent-control reform package, passed a parking freeze in down-town Cambridge to control traffic and pollution and set a progressive tone for the council with actions such as encouraging restaurants to sell "affordable" condoms...