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...least the past decade, the Council has been divided between four conservative Independents, with their commitment to neighborhood and business concerns, and four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members, who favor rent control and limits on development...
...think there's any way the CCA can capture the hearts of the people of East Cambridge," says Independent Councillor William H. Walsh...
That year he placed 11th in the race for nine Council seats. Thompson ran again in 1981, but the CCA refused him an endorsement, calling his stands on rent control ambiguous. He came in 12th...
Frances Cooper, a CCA school committee member, says she supports Graham for her experience. "I don't want to make a negative comment on Al Thompson," she says, but adds that he "has no elected experience that I know of." Cooper adds, "I'm having a hard time seeing how he could jump in [the race] without that experience...
...after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Thompson says he chaired the Cambridge Black Citizens Committee (CBC) that formed to fight local racism. At that time, he says, "Blacks were not allowed to ride in police cars," and Thompson worked with James Vaughnberg of the CCA to integrate police cars...