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Though he agrees with their platform almost point by point, local liberal John T. St. George '70 didn't seek the support of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for his city council bid. Running an independent campaign, he says "lends a sense of adventure to my candidacy...
...never occurred to me" to ask for a CCA endorsement St. George said Sunday. "I am (running without a CCA endorsement) because it was obvious to me that if I sought their endorsement I would spend a great deal of time explaining it away...
Much of the city, especially the working class wards, consider the CCA elitist, anti-labor, anti-union, and overly cozy with academia, St. George said...
...many of the wards--Ward 1 in East Cambridge, for example--that have been rejecting CCA candidates for conservative members of the Independent slate would support a non-CCA liberal, he adds. "These working class neighborhoods are the same neighborhoods that put Tip O'Neill and Jack Kennedy in office...
...want to be misunderstood," St. George said. "The CCA has taken some progressive stands on issues in the Cambridge community, especially rent control," he added. But he's hoping voters ignore the slate cards and concentrate on individuals; if they do, he says, he has a chance...