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...CCA President Alan Steinert, speaking at a Continental Hotel rally last night, sharply condemned a group calling themselves the Middlesex County Civic Association. "Boring political chicanery" was the term with which Steinert described the group's use of the initials CCA in their campaign literature...
...letters in the organization's name were printed in very small type, with only the CCA appearing large. "The stunt in obviously a last minute attempt to take advantage of our name," Steinert said...
...County Civic Association endorsed three CCA candidates, but gave the number one position on their cards to Thomas B. Harris, who is not endorsed by the CCA. In proportional representation voting, the number one vote is crucial...
Although Cambridge politics knows no party line, the group sending out the cards is a Republican faction. Their two top School Committee selections are also unendorsed by the CCA. Arthur E. Robinson, secretary of the County Civic Organization, said last night "I suppose our use of the letters CCA is a trick in a way, but there is nothing to prevent our using them...
...five good men and the Council of a city of Cambridge's size needs more. But the absence of any one of these men from the Council would make a weaker Cambridge and might see the return of the corruption which marred the Council before the advent of the CCA...