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Geneva T. Malenfant, president of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), said she had no objections to local residents offering contributions to council candidates but said she was "troubled" by the influence of groups from outside the city...
Malenfant said that while Sullivan, who is endorsed by the Alliance for Change, and Duehay, who is endorsed by the CCA, have raised large amounts of money, less than $3,000 of Duehay's financial support came from outside Cambridge while Sullivan picked up $21,045 from non-Cambridge residents...
...think the candidates from the CCA have as their main interests the people who live here, whereas the people who live here, whereas the Alliance [for Change] candidates are business-oriented and have supporters outside the city," she said...
Conservatives have historically campaigned as independent candidates while the CCA-endorsed slates have benefited from proportional voting, a complex process whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference and votes are then distributed among the candidates...
Many feel that the final seat on the council will go either to McSweeney, who fell 47 votes shy of election in 1993, or CCA-endorsed Henrietta A. Davis, who has served on the school committee since...