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...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the nation's oldest municipal political party, will celebrate its 35th anniversary next week with a party organizers are billing as a reunion of legendary city political figures, many of whom have not been close politically for 15 years...
...Some of these people have not been particularly friendly to the CCA for a little while," Elaine Kistiakowsky, president of the CCA said yesterday. The CCA has become more liberal and tenant-oriented over the last decade...
...CCA grew out of the political forces backing reform of Cambridge's city charter in the late 1930s. It was predominantly a "good government" taxpayers group, though Kistiakowsky said, "We wouldn't be ashamed today of our first platform--it showed a lot of social conscience...
...turmoil and strife of the 1960s changed the CCA "like it changed virtually every other institution in the city," Kistiakowsky said...
David Sullivan's electoral triumph may signal that the city's tenants are finally ready to join the Cambridge political mainstream. Many of those who supported the young lawyer also voted for CCA candidates; if that allegiance holds, they could dramatically shift the city's balance of power...