Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsor Fred Meyer, owner of University Real Estate, says he has "never discussed 1-2-3 with Thompson," so he has no idea whether he will support it. He adds that he "will vote for Thompson" because he finds Graham "unaccessible, based on personal experience...
...case, Thompson says the controversy is irrelevant because "there's no function for the state representative in terms of rent control." He says Graham wants to "cloud the issue of the state representative's function" by emphasizing her stands on rent control, he says, adding that rent control is not as big an issue as it once...
...Thompson said he worries that most of the developers in the Cambridge real estate market want to build commercial projects and condominiums, not apartments subject to rent control...
...Thompson ran for City Council in 1979 with an endorsement from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). At that time, he told the Cambridge Chronicle, "I favor rent control and I'm against condominium conversion." But he qualified his position, adding, "I will seek to reform the procedures of the rent control board...
That year he placed 11th in the race for nine Council seats. Thompson ran again in 1981, but the CCA refused him an endorsement, calling his stands on rent control ambiguous. He came in 12th...