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Although the board of directors of the CCA is largely Democratic, its membership is to a great extent Republican. In Cambridge, however, these Republicans might have been Democrats, had not the Democratic party been largely a party controlled by Irish and Italian Catholics. An obvious parallel to the Cambridge situation is the earlier (Mayor Curleyera) Back Bay Republican reform element, which still spasmodically asserts itself in Boston politics...
...CCA, in this campaign, has broadened its scope somewhat, more from a feeling of expediency than of sincerity. Some, certainly not all of its candidates were recruited, instead of coming to seek support. Last spring Shaplin told a Harvard audience that the CCA, to gain a majority on the School Committee or the Council, would have to broaden its electoral base substantially. A conscious effort to achieve this goal can be seen in the CCA's 18 endorsees. Four are blessed with Italian names, two, and possibly a third, are of Irish ancestry, four have Jewish ties...
Despite some of the comic touches (One of the Sullivanites complained that the squabble over the school appointments had left the hockey team without a coach for its Boston Garden appearance.), the campaign is deadly serious. The Mayor, for instance, means it when he says that the CCA is run by "carpetbaggers," and that he could do as well in getting out the votes if he had a ward and precinct organization financed by payoffs from Cambridge industries. CCA leaders, Shaplin in particular, are just as bitter about the Mayor and his treatment of them in the School Committee...
...CCA campaign revolves almost entirely around the School Committee issue, which to the reformers has come to signify the worst sort of politics in the schools. Although the CCA platform contains other planks--"advancement of the long-range city-wide building program, co-ordination of the building program with urban renewal and highway development, activation of a new school advisory committee, increased co-operation between the Recreation and School Departments encouragement and support of P.T.A.'s, and active citizens' consulting committees"--its school committee candidates concentrate their attack on the appointments made last December. Its City Council platform also contains...
...James Vorenberg, CCA ward and precinct director, a heavier vote will be a "reflection of anger" and consequently a benefit to the CCA. Although Vorenberg did not have figures on the results of the CCA's recent drive to register voters, he felt confident that more had registered and more would turn out to vote than in a normal year. Vorenberg said that his organization had obtained complete coverage in roughly one-half of the city. He felt that its efficiency was "amazingly good" considering the lack of political canvassing experience of most of the workers. In Ward...