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...Cambridge is by no means a one-party town. For more than 40 years, the City Council has been split down the middle between candidates backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and those running as Independents...
Nonetheless, there can be little doubt thatVellucci has propped up the CCA since 1973, thelast year in which it held a majority on thecouncil...
...question of perspective," saysSullivan, a CCA councillor who is also leaving thecouncil next year. "The fact is that we agree on athe issues and we vote with each other. I'll leaveit to the historians to determine who got therefirst...
...Although his rhetoric is independent, hisvalues are CCA," says CCA Executive Director NoahM. Berger '89. "Like us, he supports honestcompassionate government and affordable housing...
...times Vellucci can look like the onlydefender of real people's interests in the city.At times he seems an infuriating bully. In eithercase, other councillors tend to listen, becauseIndependents and CCA alike look to the mayor forhis swing vote...