Word: supporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Copies of the letter were circulated at Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Wellesley, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, but letters of support have been received from Williams, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and other universities, Luria added...
Appealing personally to voters will require more than a conscious decision, however. Strong candidates must be found, personalities voters can develop a fondness for. Sullivan may fit that bill, as may School Committee member Alice Wolf, who piled up city-wide support and a record number of votes in her school board bid. If a strong attachment, personal perhaps, to one candidate can be combined with a weaker intellectual support for other progressives, the CCA may have found a new tactic...
...other option, which could be pursued at the same time, is to beef up the CCA slate effort. The CCA has been tainted almost from its birth 40 years ago by the support of the wealthy few. Even today, it is common to hear complaints about the Brattle St. crowd running the city, about newcomers governing the CCA. The group must shed that image to establish a base in conservative and ethnic districts of the city, especially East Cambridge...
...about rent control and condominium conversion; the CCA should have focused on those issues more strongly in its literature. At the very least, old-line CCA members should swallow their pride and return to the "Cambridge Convention" label adopted years ago. Hiding the CCA name probably won't mystify supporters, but it may calm those in other parts of the city who support the group's position ideologically but can't bring themselves to back the upper crust...
...this year. Only one, incumbent Graham, was elected. The second-choice votes on the ballots cast for all three tended to be for one of the other black candidates. Often voters chose the three blacks and didn't bother to vote past that. How to pick up stronger slate support from black voters is a tricky problem, but one the CCA must address if it wants the few hundred votes that could make the difference between four and five seats in the next election...