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...able to enact substantial reforms, and even now votes on important issues are often split 6 to 3 or 7 to 2 instead of 5 to 4. So, observes 20-year Cambridge resident and activist Bill Cavellini, the loss of a CCA seat to an independent contender like Vellucci or School Committee heavyweight Jane F. Sullivan would not be the death knell for city liberals...
Most observers say Vellucci is a formidable contender, and many say that Independent Jane Sullivan could have a chance, because of her long involvement on the school committee and her grass-roots campaign style. Independent James McSweeney may benefit from his money-intensive campaign...
...Nothing can replace a grassroots approach to campaigning," Walsh said. Despite the comfortable operating budgets of candidates like him and Duehay, or the considerably stricter financial restraints of candidates like Alfred E. Vellucci, most candidates devote much of their energy to good, old-fashioned door knocking and time-proven letter writing...
...Vellucci has managed to escape the exorbitant cost of becoming a house-hold name by running a "homemade" city-wide campaign. Designing his own artwork, using his own copy machine, making his own signs and gearing the information his circulars advertise to specific neighborhoods have all trimmed the costs of his campaign by thousands of dollars, Vellucci said...
...more circulars, more printing and more communication than all the other candidates put together...I'm using my 40 years of experience and not a lot of money," the successful 20-time candidate said. Vellucci has never lost an election in four decades of municipal politics...