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...school committee are almost equally divided between candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association and the so-called independents. (The independents hold a 5-4 majority on the Council; elected members of the school committee are split 3-3, chairs the committee and throws the majority to the CCA...
...CCA is opposing the change with every resource at its command--a good indication that supporters of the civic association feel they have a great deal to lose if PR is tossed out. A look at recent voting figures tells why. The bulwark of the CCA's support lies in Wards 7 and 8--the Brattle Street area--and in city elections, CCA candidates poll only about 40 to 45 per cent of the total vote. With PR, that's good enough to elect respectable delegations to both the Council and the school committee. Under a plurality, only the strongest...
...many parts of the City, the CCA's image is terrible--and "CCA" itself is probably a swear word. This is a reflection of antipathy between rich and poor, tension between the two large universities--and those associated with them--and the rest of the City. So bad, in fact, is the CCA's image that many politicians will not accept the association's endorsement because they believe it would be political suicide to do so. One present Councillor, Bernard Goldberg, first ran with CCA endorsement and lost; in the next election, he declined endorsement and won. If campaigns became...
...Maher wins, someone on the present Council must go. The who is the question that no one can seem to answer. Mayor Crane, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan (normally the vote-gettingist candidate), and CCA-endorsed Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler are usually conceded to be safe. Al Vellucci is safe, though his security isn't as well-established as either Sullivan's, Crane's or Wheeler...
...other incumbents is a prime candidate for elimination. "What you have," observes one politician simply, "is six candidates for five seats." Two of the five threatened office-holders are CCA-endorsed Thomas Coates, a Negro, and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, the professor from M.I.T. Mahoney ran ninth last time, and, on the face of it, might be considered the most vulnerable. But remember one important feature of PR: candidates siphon their votes mainly, from relatively restricted areas or groups. The plain truth is that neither Mahoney or Coates draw their major support from the same elements that Maher must...