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...city's progressive organizers by refusing to join forces in a single-minded coalition against conservative incumbent Francis McCann. She lost. This year, she's making her first bid for the city council, and she won, with no fuss at all, the support of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). She appeared--and still appears--to have a good shot at winning a seat on the nine-member panel. A tireless campaigner, she has probably shaken as many hands as any candidates save the Sullivans, Walter and David. But despite her avowed support for rent control and opposition to condominium...
...Brattle St., though, they may be thinking a little differently. West Cambridge has always been the power base of city liberals; it's here that the CCA finds the bulk of its votes, and it's here that Abt and others like her must do well to win seats on the council. For a long time, this area was the home of "good government" sentiment. The Brattle St. folk, distressed at the fashion which the Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort...
...thing about pendulums, though, is that they always swing back. There are signs that the CCA romance with the left--with the city's disadvantaged--may be fading. Or perhaps it is not so much the CCA itself, for its platform still expressed unequivocal support for rent control and limits on condominium conversion. The change instead may be with the traditional CCA voters, and if their mood is shifting, then most likely the organization will quickly scurry to the right. Increasingly, Brattle St. voters seem more worried about issues that affect them--tax assessments are the prime example--than about...
Johnson added that CCA officials had been meeting with representives of condo owners, and said he thought the "bulk of condo owners would be CCA voters...
Sullivan, singled out for mention in the leaflet, said it was part of a campaign to keep condominium owners--a political constituency that has emerged as potentially important in just the last few years--from voting for the CCA slate...