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Although he is a member of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), he did not seek the group's endorsement, because he said the group was becoming too doctrinaire in its approach...
...several terms, progressive candidates, most of whom rally under the standard of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), have held on to a slippery five-man majority. That one-vote edge accounts for rent control in the city of Cambridge. It is also responsible for recently passed limits on condominium conversion. And in large part, those votes have kept City Manager James L. Sullivan at the helm of the city administration...
Retaining that edge is the traditional job of the CCA, which currently controls four seats. Their margin on the crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
...CCA supporters are counting on different shifts in city voters. One is the rising fear among tenants that rent control is in serious trouble here--in the course of the last two years, most cities in the area have ended rent controls. When they were lifted next door in Somerville, rents soared--a fact to which CCA politicians frequently refer. At the same time, the number of condominium conversions in Cambridge has increased dramatically. Only the frantic legal scrambling of CCA councilors slowed down the condo boom this year, and the prospect of renewed conversions may scare many tenants...
...abbreviation factor" is the final piece of circumstantial evidence pointing to the CCC's basically conservative stand. For 40 years, the Cambridge Civic Association, known to all as the CCA, has dominated Cambridge liberal politics. Each election year it runs a pro-rent control, anti-condo conversion slate. This year, once much of the CCA '79 literature was back from the printers, the CCC emerged, with similar slate tactics. To further complicate things, the CCC endorsed the three CCA candidate who later demanded to the unendorsed. Duehay demanded to be left off the CCC ticket because he feared "there would...