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Duehay says that although he speaks to Reeves regularly, he is unsure whether the mayor will seek a CCA endorsement.
If the CCA chooses not to endorse Reeves, the organization may endorse only a minority of incumbent councillors, almost ensuring a loss of political clout, says Winters.
Candidates who may be endorsed by the CCA include incumbents Reeves, Duehay, Kathleen L. Born and Katherine Triantafillou as well as challengers Henrietta Davis, a member of the Cambridge school committee, Edward N. Cyr, a former city councillor, and Lester P. Lee, Jr., campaign chair for the Save Our Communities...
Kenneth E. Reeves '72, elected in 1991, is the city's first Black mayor, and Artis B. Spears is the first Black chair of the board of election commissioners. Two Blacks, Robin A. Harris and E. Denise Simmons, sit on the seven-member School Committee.
"You would be hard-pressed to find anyone of minority descent making the decisions," says Reeves. "The whole administration, the whole public health [administration], all of the decision-making is largely [white], largely male."