Word: rented
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Seven of the nine council incumbents also seem likely to hold their seats. Only pro-rent control incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser and one-term rent control foe Lawrence E. Frisoli seem likely to lose their spots on the board. They will probably be replaced by Leonard Russell, described as more moderate than Frisoli, and tenant activist David Sullivan, a strong supporter of rent control...
...There are more tenants than landlords--if they all turn out to vote, we should do well;" one pro-rent control candidate predicted before the election...
Across Cambridge, volunteers handed out slate cards to voters entering the polls. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), the Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT) and the Rent Control Task Force all endorsed slates during the campaign, which turned nasty in its final weeks...
Alvin Thompson, running with the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association, has endorsed continued rent controls, and called for the beefing up of the Rent Board staff to handle cases more quickly...
...candidate if his first preference wins big or is eliminated from the running, it pays to give voters a list of identifiable candidates. It has also served as a useful way for Cantabrigians to clearly define the issues facing the city--CCA candidates, for example, are in favor of rent controls, and voters have little to fear in the way of defections...