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DESPITE the liberals' failure to retain their tenuous hold on the Cambridge City Council, the Independents' 5-4 majority is luckily just as tenuous. More encouraging is the prospect of a continuing progressive majority on the school committee, with the apparent election of three Cambridge Civic Association/Common Slate candidates and one unaffiliated moderate, Glenn Koocher...
Mayor Barbara Ackermann, leader of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), returns to City Hall as Councillor Ackermann with only one other CCA candidate, David F. Wylie, sure to join her, as he successfully moved over from the school committee...
...Civic Association or Common Slate Candidate (I do not believe in slates, especially when they're made up privately), I do not have access to the fat-cat or liberal mailing list that Hagert's endorsees Tim Callahan, Eric Davin, or Mary Preusser have. I must reach these people, if I can find them, personally or with personal funding--and it hurts when you must pay out of your own pocket. Preusser, Orie Dudley, Peter Gesell, Alice. Wolf, and Dave Wylie all have over $2500 in funding behind them...
...most qualified candidates for city council have been endorsed by the Grass Roots Organization or the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). Among these eleven candidates, five seem worthy of special mention...
Fred Arsenault has been active in civic affairs since 1963. As chairman of Headstart and of the first Community Schools Commission, he has proved willing Nand able to work for progressive change in Cambridge...