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Five votes are needed to pass the ordinance; the support of the four councilors belonging to the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) is assured. The only other councilor likely to vote for the measure is Independent Alfred E. Vellucci; some councilors speculated that the ordinance battle would be an important step in Vellucci's campaign to win the mayoralty (see separate story...
...understand why, a little knowledge of Cambridge politics is important. The city is split into two camps--the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the neighborhood-oriented and more conservative Independent coalition...
Vellucci, though, badly wants to be mayor--he declared his candidacy even before the vote count was finished in the November election, and he has since broken with the CCA on some housing votes to the delight of the Independents...
Meanwhile, the CCA four are left out in the cold, because, according to sources, the Independents have been unwilling to negotiate with them...
Meanwhile, the CCA councilors would probably love to get Vellucci alone and try to wrestle a few promises from him. Support for their liberal housing policies would probably win him their four votes and the mayor's chair. Without commitments from Vellucci, the CCA bloc will almost certainly not back...