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...major change is to spring from this election, it will come in one of three ways: Either the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) will win another seat, the neighborhood-oriented and more conservative Independents will add one, or an unaffiliated moderate (first-time campaigner Mary Allen Wilkes has the only real chance) will replace either a liberal or a conservative. Currently the liberal CCA controls four of the nine council slots. Their neighborhood-based rivals, the Independents, control four. And in the middle--nominally an Independent, but closer on most issues to the CCA--is Alfred E. Vellucci, the senior member...
...important, because any candidate receiving a quota of first choices (10 per cent plus one vote of the total voter turnout) is automatically declared a winner in the first stage. Traditionally, only one or two candidates reach quota on the first round. In 1979, Independent Walter Sullivan and Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) member David Sullivan managed the feat...
David C. Blackman, endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association in his second run for the school board--says he is worried about Proposition 2 1/2. If any more teachers are laid off, he says, the city's school system will become little more than "a day-care system"--he is running for School Committee to find an alternative to firing teachers...
Glenn S. Koocher '71 says there are only two main issues in this year's school board election for the Cambridge School Committee. The first centers around what Koocher calls "the fundamental differences" between Independent candidates and Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates on the issue of how to dismiss teachers...
...past decade rent control has survived in Cambridge through a precarious one man majority on the city council. Four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association--have pledged to maintain the present system, four would like to at least significantly weaken it, and one--former mayor and long-time councilor Alfred E. Vellucci--takes delight in holding the swing vote. He has never dropped his support of rent control, though...