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...though much less directly, and perhaps not by her own choice--seems to be appealing to similar feelings. She is the first CCA candidate not to win the endorsement of the city's tenants, a rebuff delivered at a late summer convention. Abt has promised not to vote against rent control. But she also told city tenants that "rent control may not be the best or only way to protect low and moderate income people," and said that many condominium purchasers who wanted only to own their own homes and had "injured no one" were being caught in "complicated regulations...
...buzz word for Abt and Wilkes supporters seems to be "flexibility." "We want to send a message to the CCA," says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...Such attention most likely will exacerbate a trend seen in recent months--the increasing disenchantment of many, even in the traditional CCA coalition, with "extreme stands" on housing issues. The question first arose when David Sullivan last spring tried to add new teeth to the anti-condo ordinance. Grumblings about "going too far" were soon heard, and the furor that surrounded attempts to prosecute some condo purchasers were effective weapons not only for Independent slate councilors but also for Wilkes. Though councilor Saundra Graham stuck staunchly behind Sullivan, West Cambridge representatives of the traditional CCA like Francis H. Duehay...
Four or five years ago, there would have been few outsiders to challenge moderation in the CCA on housing issues. In the last few years, though, tenants--not the homeowners that make up the traditional CCA--have become well-organized and increasingly politically powerful. David Sullivan can claim credit for much of that transformation; he will reap the fruits of it tomorrow with a strong showing. But the new power means the CCA will not be allowed to drift slowly to the right. If it does, tenants will increasingly distance themselves from it--there will be more Wendy Abts...
Like Question #2, the third non-binding referendum is expected to attract more than the usual share of student voters to the polls tomorrow. That's good news for city liberals--members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) alate--who traditionally have relied on student support to win election to the city council and school committee...