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Although two challengers backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) led the field, four of the six incumbents, all Independents, were victorious, disrupting the previous balance of three CCA affiliates to three Independents...
...results do not necessarily indicate a conservative shift because one of the non-affiliated victors, Glen S Koocher '71, shares the CCA's liberal platform. Political differences led to Koocher's disendorsement by the organization last year...
Frances H. Cooper, one of the elected CCA challengers, said yesterday that despite the candidates affiliation. "There is a possibility for coalition because there is a lot of common ground between us on issues...
Besides Cooper and Koocher, the candidates elected were CCA-backed Rena Leib and Independent incumbents Alfred B. Fantini, Jane F. Sullivan, and Joseph E. Maynard...
Wylie hoped to Own one of the Independents by receiving transfer votes from Richard Bradson, the special interest candidate backed by condominium owners. Branson was 11th in the race, and pols were uncertain whether his constituents would transfer votes to CCA candidates or to conservatives. On the one hand, condo owners tend to be young and upward mobile, the profile of the typical CCA supporter. On the other hand, the CCA has taken a strong stand against condo conversion, to product low-to moderate-income housing...