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Because they advocate housing reform, Coalition '85 candidates are seen as nabbing the votes of the city's condominium owners, upper to middle class, college-educated, professional and liberal people who have felt disenfranchised because of the CCA's tough stance on condo conversion...
Partially made up of former CCA members, the Coalition last month released a letter signed by five ex-CCA leaders who charged that their former organization's platform was "rigid and doctrinaire." CCA-backed candidates dismissed the statement and called the signers has-beens in the party...
Local pols are also predicting that first-term City Councilor Alice K. Wolf will finish first among the CCA's six endorsed candidates. Incumbent David E. Sullivan, who finished seventh in 1983, is predicted to lose key tenant votes because of his purchase of a home in Cambridgeport and the candidacy of rent control advocate Michael H. Turk. Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, a twenty-two year veteran politician, is expected to ease into his seat again due in large part to the popularity of his four-month term as mayor...
Three Black candidates backed by the CCA--State Rep. Saundra K. Graham, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, and Renae Scott--are expected to vie for the city's 5000 registered minority voters. As the ballot tabulating progresses, observers say that Reeves and Scott will feed votes into Graham's pile and assure her reelection...
...Vellucci faces a tough run for the roses against a few of his Independent neighbors, City Councilor Alfred W. LaRosa and Francis Budryk. Vellucci, a three-term mayor who has held a city council seat since 1956, has been targeted by rent control opponents for his support of CCA social issues...