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Unfortunately, the CCA is not as strong and constructive a force as it could be. The hot appointments issue obscures the fact that the association has nothing else hot--and little that is particularly warm--on either its city council or school committee platform. It advocates urban renewal, which is proceeding nicely anyway, and offers other suggestions which are fairly obvious and seem to be generally agreed upon by both CCA and anti-CCA candidates...
...more well-to-do sections of the city. This year, even though the association has established a headquarters in Central Square and are attempting to campaign vigorously in these areas, the candidates whom they have chosen to endorse from these sections are not of the high caliber of CCA-endorsed Councilor DeGuglielmo, Shaplin, and Mrs. Ogden. Many lack civic and legal experience; one city councilor candidate is venturing into city affairs for the first time this fall...
...most serious weaknesses of the CCA, perhaps, is its inability to coerce its endorsees to keep to their platform pledges. CCA-endorsed city council members have squabbled with each other since they were elected, and were thus unable to put solid weight behind a good candidate for mayor when this council organized itself in 1955. The result of this was Mayor Sullivan, and, indirectly the appointments issue which CCA is now fighting. Even on the school committee, CCA-endorsed Anthony Galluccio bolted from his platform pledges and sided with the "independents" most of the time...
...surface, then, it would seem that there is no real hope for good government. On one side are the self-styled independents, who do not hesitate to play politics even with school children; on the other side are CCA-endorsed candidates, who are pledged to a generally weak platform, who are not all candidates of the highest caliber, and who are subject to little force that will make them keep to their platform pledges. If the CCA would make a strong endeavor to find highly educated administrators to run for city council or school committee, and provide these men with...
...event, the candidates whose names are prefixed by a "CCA points the way" sign are, in general, the best ones running. With the exception of a few non-CCA city Council candidates like McNamara and Watson, the CCA men are the best hope for a reasonably clean Cambridge over the next two years...