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After all, candidates from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's old-line liberal group, nabbed four of six school committee seats and four of nine city council slots. The CCA vote percentage was much higher than usual. David Sullivan, the CCA's rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There...
...backroads of mid-Cambridge, where city progressives like to hang out. All that money, all that campaigning and all those liberal votes merely maintained the same number of progressives on the council. "No more, no less, we just tread water like every year," a disgusted CCA adherent complained as the final vote totals came in. And that means two more years of dependence on independent Alfred E. Vellucci for the fifth vote necessary to pass liberal programs, notably rent control...
Velluci's support is not likely to waver, although he may demand the mayor's office as a token of appreciation. But when Velluci, the senior member of the council, someday decides not to run again, his decision won't add his East Cambridge constituency to the CCA ranks. The Italian-surnamed successor that Vellucci-supporters are likely to find won't prove as liberal. Instead, a new neighborhood dynasty, like those built by other city conservatives, could rise, toppling the liberal coalition majority and with it rent control...
...roundly denounced by liberals as an attempt to confuse CCA voters, was just one cloud in the campaign. The Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT), another new group largely discredited as a political force by their candidate Frisoli's poor showing, mailed condo owneres a letter listing the tax assessement on the homes of some "anti-condo" councilors. And the usual number of nasty rumors and charges circulated the city. Perhaps the most widely-voiced and least effective concerned David Sullivan. "Psssst," people would say, elbowing your ribs. "Did you know his name is really Solomon?" It isn't, at least...
Unchanging candidates tend to veil some changes in liberal politics. David Sullivan's overwhelming vote is a sign that the issue (rent control) and the candidate (well-financed and an energetic campaigner) may be as important as the backing of the traditional liberal-power-broker (the CCA...