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...shot at winning a seat on the nine-member panel. A tireless campaigner, she has probably shaken as many hands as any candidates save the Sullivans, Walter and David. But despite her avowed support for rent control and opposition to condominium conversion. Abt got only three votes at the tenant convention; more than 100 activists voted against her, and she was the only candidate in attendance to be defeated. She was, she said, "shocked...
...greatest crime, in the eyes of tenant organizers, seems to be equivocation. Though she swore never to vote against rent control, she presented a set of five problems with the program in her speech to the convention. And she said this: "Some sympathetic observers have pointed out that rent control may not be the best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better...
Student registrants number between 700 and 800, and could play a large role in the election, a student, Guy Molyneux, said yesterday. Molyneux, an organizer for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) helped distribute leaflets last weekend backing the candidacy of tenant advocate and council incumbent David Sullivan...
City Council candidates promising to support the right of all tenants to buy apartments as condominiums may win campaign support from the Cambridge Condominium Network, a newly formed city political group. The CCN has yet to endorse formally candidates for the November 3 election, but another local group-the Cambridge chapter of Citizens for Participation in Political Action-released its slate of council candidates last week. The liberal CPPAX gave the nod to Mary Ellen Preusser, Francis Duehay '55, Alice Wolf, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham and Wendy Abt. That slate mirrors the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) ticket, except...
University lawyers recently responded to a $1.2 million suit brought by a tenant in a Harvard-owned building who claimed she was sexually assaulted due to inadequate security precautions. The response cites a variety of defenses, including the claim that if "the defendant (Harvard) was negligent as alleged, the plaintiff was negligent to a greater degree...