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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditionally, heavy turnouts aid prorent control candidates, who currently hold a one-seat majority on the city council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elections Draw Moderate Turnout at Polls | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...There are more tenants than landlords--if they all turn out to vote, we should do well;" one pro-rent control candidate predicted before the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elections Draw Moderate Turnout at Polls | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Across Cambridge, volunteers handed out slate cards to voters entering the polls. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), the Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT) and the Rent Control Task Force all endorsed slates during the campaign, which turned nasty in its final weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elections Draw Moderate Turnout at Polls | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...endorsed most of the incumbents, including Wylie and Duehay, two very surprised members of the liberal CCA slate. They were surprised at the endorsements because the CCC seemed (though its leaders deny the charge) to have more links with conservative than liberal leaders. If the CCC slate won, rent control would likely die, and the majority of the group's officers are definitely condominium owners. Duehay and Wylie were perhaps equally surprised at the nasty reaction of many of their own supporters. The Rent Control Task Force reportedly scheduled a meeting to consider unendorsing the pair, who quickly demanded instead...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Buddy System | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...have most hurt White's campaign. It is rather with the civic-minded middle class voters who just want the violence to end, the moderates who are the back-bone of White's coalition. Just as White began to deliver on his promise of stability, he seemed to lose control...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones iv and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: The Road Ahead | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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