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...conservative Independent faction of the City Council claimed two major victories over the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last night, electing Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci as mayor and taking long-awaited steps toward weakening the city's controversial ordinance prohibiting the conversion of rent-controlled housing to condominiums...
...though we had to do something to break the deadlock." Walter Sullivan said. He denied that a deal had been struck among the four Independents, who repeatedly sought to weaken the anti-conversion ordinance, and Vellucci, who usually supports the CCA on housing issues but who stated consistently since the November election that he was a candidate for mayor...
Councilor Saundra Graham, a member of the rival Cambridge Civic Association, joked to Russell that the CCA would "think about it," but it is extremely unlikely that the CCA would ever support Sullivan...
Some compromise is necessary, however, because neither the CCA, with four councilors, nor the Independents, who without. Vellucci's support also have four votes, can alone elect a mayor...
Though he did not vote against the acceptance, CCA member David Wylie criticized the philosophy behind the funding of the $10,000 affair, which was financed through private donations instead of tax revenue...