Word: pro-rent
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...Cambridge political maxim holds that any increase in the number of voters will aid pro-rent control candidates. That hypothesis may be slowly turning to myth as more condominium owners populate the city, but for now there are simply more tenants than landlords in Cambridge...
...liberal, pro-rent control forces probably will fail to gain five council seats; once again it will be vital that voters return Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci to office. Though questions about his former state job remain unanswered, his re-election is necessary to insure a liberal majority on the council. Vellucci has served as a unique link between the liberals and the more conservative neighborhoods. Though Councilor David Clem has been a great disappointment on rent control and condominium control, he too has been a constructive force on the council and deserves another term...
...week that the Harlow family has sent letters to all of its tenants urging them to vote for anti-rent control candidates David Sullivan, a CC '77 council candidate, says the feelings of Harlow's tenants are such that this letter would only encourage them further to vote for pro-rent control candidates...
Councilor Barbara Ackermann, one of the four pro-rent control councilors, charter-righted Vellucci's order September 16 to postpone a council vote. Vellucci Monday tabled the order because of a lengthy council agenda. He probably will bring it up at next Monday's council session...
...running on the rent control issue: they include Cynthia Kline (Peace and Freedom Party), Steve Nelson (a hip graduate of the Law School and the Kennedy School), Jessie Gill (a nurse's aide who has made a small career picketing Harvard), and Daniel Connelly (the first chairman of the pro-rent control Cambridge Housing Convention...