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...fundamental issues of economic and social justice. They include all members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate--David Sullivan, Francis H. Duehay '55, David Wylie, Saundra Graham, Alice Wolf, Mary Ellen Preusser, Wendy Abt and Robert White. And they also include the standard-bearers of the city's tenant convention--besides most of the CCA group, the tenant slate includes Alvin Thompson, Brian Feigenbaum, John St. George and Alfred Vellucci, the dean of the city council whose longstanding compassion has kept rent control alive in Cambridge for the past decade...
...problem is--as the Rent Control Task Force convention vote showed--that tenants do not feel that wholehearted support of rent and condominium controls are irresponsible. For Abt (and for every current member of the city council save David Sullivan, who rents his home) economic necessity is not an issue. Tenant activists see charges that rent control subsidizes the rich--which in some cases it surely does--as a rhetorical cover for attacking the program which protects them. "If debate is ever opened on rent control, the forces against it are so strong that it will emerge irrevocably weakened...
...searchers after that middle ground may be many. There are the condo owners, who though secure in their homes may feel a psychological identification with others trying to circumvent the regulations limiting such purchases. There are the tenants who want to buy their own homes. There is that, perhaps large, segment of the population that can be persuaded that a "rational, ordered" approach is the best way to deal with any problem. An earlier test of the size of this group--the can-didacies backed in 1979 by a group of self-proclaimed moderates, the Concerned Cambridge Citizens--failed because...
...recipe for making three power centers where only two exist today is obvious. Tomorrow's election will begin to show if it is going to happen; the momentum that seems to be developing, however, would indicate that only tremendously strong showing by David Sullivan and other tenant candidates like John St. George, coupled with poor performance by Wilkes and Abt would quash notions of a liberal shift to the center. If the 1981 campaign has proven anything. it is the fragility of the progressive consensus in Cambridge...
...Independent clan, who has won the most votes in ten straight city elections--will waltz into office with his usual ease. And David Sullivan--who came within 20 votes of Walter's total during the 1979 election, is also but guaranteed a slot, thanks to the solid tenant organization he has built. Most likely they will run at the head of the pack again: Walter is intent on keeping his top-of-the-ticket showing intact, so intent that he has been rounding up support from former Crane supporters, votes the might have been of more help to some...