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...says that while Sullivan and his fellow independents may oppose rent control, they have never been serious enough to try to abolish it. They knew that their blue-collar ethnic constituencies wouldn't stand for it. But Walsh was different. Walsh was the businessman's candidate, and he has remained their advocate, according to Cyr. Two kinds of independents emerged; the old style neighborhood' politicians and the young issue-oriented ones...
...figured that if there could be a representative for upscale conservatives, then it was time for Cambridge to have a city councillor for "downscale progressives," a term he uses to describe the liberal blue-collar ethnic consitutency he hopes to mobilize...
...believes that Cambridge politics centers on class. He maintains that the CCA has been buoyed by wealthy Cambridge liberals who have no contact with Cambridge's blue-collar ethnic base. He notes that he recently ran across one elderly woman who told him straight-faced that Harvard ran the CCA. "She really thought President Bok was making the decisions for them," he says. And Cyr says that impression reflects the estrangement of Cambridge blue collar ethnics from the CCA. As a result, Cyr shunned requests asking him to seek the CCA endorsement...
...says that the CCA has never made the effort to get to know less well-off Cambridge citizens as the independents have. He notes that he has never attended a wake from which Mayor Sullivan was absent. His candidacy is an effort to attract blue collar voters with liberal views away from the conservative independents who have survived on their support...
...occasion the government has felt obliged to draft white-collar bureaucrats into the military, thereby creating manpower problems in civilian life. When a tax officer who had been employed at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance was killed at the front, no one took over his ministry caseload. "During the last few offensives, the authorities have had to ^ mobilize the educated bureaucracy," says Rizvi. "The result is that many departments have lost competent people...