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At 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, the liberals still had a shot. After months of campaigning with the aim of gaining a city council majority, the members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) pinned their hopes on Alice Wolf. She was down by but 172 votes to veteran conservative...
Mary Allen Wilkes called herself the condo candidate; she ran a single-issue campaign, attacking the city's two-year-old ordinance restricting condominiums, a position shared by the old-line Independent councilors, of whom Danehy was one. But Wilkes is a corporate lawyer, a resident of fashionable West Cambridge...
Wolf, who totalled more than 5000 votes in her run for school committee two years ago won 1286 votes yesterday, followed by first-time candidate Mary Allen Wilkes, who won 1261 votes with a campaign aimed at condominium owners, and Wendy Abt, who received only 1024 votes despite one of...
In Ward 7, Precinct 5, however, where most Quad residents vote, condo candidate Wilkes received 119 votes, followed by Wylie with 80, Duehay with 77, David Sullivan with 75, and Wolf with 51.
Running especially well in precincts where condominium conversion has become an issue, Wilkes may have laid the foundation for another, more successful council bid two years hence.