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...liberals and radicals and universities of this city that are ruining Cambridge," Al began to explain. "Harvard and the CCA are bringing in unqualified outsiders who are ruining the schools and driving up taxes with their fancy programs...
After last year's election, the council looked like it would be a tight organization dominated by a five-man independent majority. The regime of former mayor Barbara Ackermann and her liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) colleagues would be replaced by the likes of tough Alfred E. Vellucci and fast-talking Walter J. Sullivan...
Extremely angered by the outcome of the mayoral election, independent Thomas W. Danehy accused Sullivan and Russell of "selling-out to the CCA." Fellow independents Vellucci and Daniel J. Clinton were also upset but less vocal...
...Danehy remains bitter over Sullivan's affair with the liberals and has repeatedly tried to break up the romance with attacks on several fronts. He already has introduced a measure before the council to abolish the controversial rent control board in Cambridge. The three CCA councilors and Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization defeated that measure with votes from Sullivan and Russell...
...Independents criticized Cheatham, brought in from Chicago by CCA in 1972, for failing to fill school department openings with local residents...