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Although all of the most qualified candidates are running with Cambridge Convention '75 endorsement, incumbents Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55, Barbara Ackermann and David Wylie deserve particular mention as proven forces in good government, rent control and neighborhood preservation.
There are a couple of sure ways to get votes these days in Cambridge. One is to promise that you'll fight unrestricted development. The other is to claim that you're on the side of neighborhood preservation--that you'll battle for downzoning and against the Kennedy Library.
Instead of fighting for neighborhood preservation, Crane prefers to show what can happen when neighborhood preservers don't halt progress. He claims credit for Tech Square--"a tax payer"--the new Draper Labs, and a slew of other offices that are making money for Cambridge every day.
If any unseating of incumbents takes place this fall, the candidates to watch as the election returns drift slowly in (with PR voting, it often takes a week to figure out the winners) will be the four non-incumbents on the CC '75 slate. Of the four-John Brode, David...
Whether CC '75 will come out on top this year depends a great deal on whether reform candidates can convince city voters that rent control and neighborhood preservation are truly at issue this year. If they fail, the voters are likely to pull the levers--or sit the election out...