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...member of the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) charged in a City Council meeting last night that Mayor Walter J. Sullivan has a conflict of interest in development plans for Kendall Square and asked that Sullivan disqualify himself from voting on the issue...
...CTOC strives to make contact with groups whose interests coincide with its own. Its founding principles state: "CTOC seeks alliances with labor, black and third world, women's, G.I., student and neighborhood groups around points of agreement in our programs. CTOC also welcomes the membership of small homeowners. Small homeowners, the tenant group says, "can be evicted through the state's power of eminent domain or through foreclosures. We stand for tenant unity with small homeowners...
Other organized tenants in Cambridge, such as those in the East Cambridge Hard Times and the Cambridgeport Homeowners and Tenants Association, share the principles and goals of CTOC and almost always work jointly with the well-organized Cambridge group. Small neighborhood organizations, such as the Douglas Street Tenants Association, which fought the introduction of a McDonald's hamburger stand in Central Square last spring, usually look to CTOC for guidance and advice...
...CTOC spokesman in June called the $50,000 appropriated for the legislative study "a waste...
Following the state action, Jeane Winner of CTOC said: "Tenant groups are sprouting up all over the state, and landlords are complaining everywhere that rent control is a troublemaker. They think if they kill the law they can kill the movement...