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...event was billed as the "Kick-Off Party" for the Cambridge Civic Association's (CCA) election drive held to launch the efforts of the progressive municipal party which has battled for power with the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independent organization. Three city councilors were there, one school committee member was there, and a handful of candidates aspiring to join them also showed...
...hours of gossip and hand-shaking marked the transition the city always goes through during the early summer of a municipal election year: from one concerned largely with policymaking to one dominated by political fanfare. That transformation was best described Wednesday night by David Wylie, a CCA councilor up for re-election, who said, "the council has acted very responsibly in the past year," which ended when the body adjourned for the summer on Monday night. But he cautioned that when the group reconvenes--for a special meeting in August and regularly after Labor Day--little will be accomplished...
Some of the political positioning has already begun. In what some have called the biggest internal shakeup in a decade, the CCA two weeks ago decided not to endorse two of its incumbents on the school committee for re-election. The move came after the party drafted a strict set of standards of political positions and conduct, and decided that Henrietta Attles, a two-term member, and Glenn Koocher '71, a five-term member, did not meet those guidelines. CCA members cited specific disagreements, such as the duo's support for the school superintendent, as reasons for the dumping. Koocher...
Neither Koocher nor CCA officials felt that the move would have any implications for the organization outside of the specific school committee elections. Elaine Kistiakowsky, the association's campaign director said, "It makes it more exciting. Having a little bit of controversy won't hurt...
...hand, these residents are generally well educated and take a progressive stand on most issues and consequently they should allign themselves with the CCA. But their principal aspiration is to buy a home. So, many are driven away from the liberal coalition, which boasts a housing policy that limits the number of homes for sale in order to present speculation particularly by condominium developers with low and moderate income housing. Much of the discussion of the power of the newly arrived paraprofessionals centers specifically on those who own condominiums. In 1970, no condos were counted in the census...