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...City Council has been split for decades between two distinct groups. On the current council, four members are endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the good-government group that originally backed Plan E. The other five bill themselves as Independents...
...recent years, rent control has been the dividing line between the two. CCA candidates back the existing rent control system, while Independents--with the crucial exception of Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--want to weaken...
Several other candidates are not endorsed by the CCA, but have expressed strong positions in favor of rent control. Among these candidates, James M. Greene, Paul J. Johnson Jr., and Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. deserve serious consideration...
LIKE all of the CCA candidates, Wolf and Duehay have been strong supporters of rent control during their terms on the council. They have consistently voted against a variety of anti-rent control measures--including Proposition...
...added, "I'd like to set an example and to make it [the CCA proposal] a model to give people confidence in the function of city government...