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Cambridge's city council consists of four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-backed members, who actively support rent control, four conservative Independent Party members, who are pro-business and anti-rent control, and one independent member, Al Vellucci, who often casts the swing vote on controversial legislation...
...Vellucci has a long record of showing up CCA hypocrisy and prevents the independents from selling the city to the highest bidder," Truesdell said...
...They all have exceptionally good positions at this point and I don't see any of them being turned out," said Jack Martinelli, CCA president...
...said he would reject a CCA endorsement because of his working class North Cambridge constituency--although he supports many of the liberal organization's positions. "The CCA is still seen as [belonging to] Wards 7 and 8," he said, referring to the affluent Harvard and Brattle Street districts...
Myers, 29, is a Cambridge youth coordinator who expects a CCA endorsement in March. He has already begun one of the earliest campaigns in recent years. The $10,000 campaign chest he claims is also more than respectable by the standards of a race in a city which is small enough to give personal loyalties more weight than purchased mediaexposure...