Word: rented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There was a marked liberal-slate loyalty among the city's voters; if they voted for one liberal on Cambridge's complicated preferential ballot, 90 per cent of the time they would vote for all the liberals...
...council. "No more, no less, we just tread water like every year," a disgusted CCA adherent complained as the final vote totals came in. And that means two more years of dependence on independent Alfred E. Vellucci for the fifth vote necessary to pass liberal programs, notably rent control...
City independents, the traditional foes of rent control, did what they had to do to keep their council edge--just barely. Walter Sullivan, as usual, led all comers in the vote, but his margin slipped--he only beat his liberal namesake David by 26 votes. Relying on his strong personal network, Walter Sullivan, an assistant clerk of courts whose father served as a councilor at the tail end of the Depression and who is entering his 13th term on the board, will keep his seat as long as he wants it--more than can be said for most...
...count. Frisoli tried to build an electoral base on non-existent soil--disenchanted condo owners. They either don't exist or didn't turn out to vote. Leaders of the Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), a group that published no stands on issues but whose candidates were mostly opposed to rent control, found the same hard fact--the traditional city voting blocs, be they liberal or ethnic, are very hard to penetrate. The only candidates useful as barometers of the CCC's effectiveness are Douglas Okun and David Agee. They relied on the CCC to build a political foundation for them...
Unchanging candidates tend to veil some changes in liberal politics. David Sullivan's overwhelming vote is a sign that the issue (rent control) and the candidate (well-financed and an energetic campaigner) may be as important as the backing of the traditional liberal-power-broker...