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Marcy, who recently dropped off the Grass Roots Organization (GRO) slate, is also battling the developers who are buying and building "in some perverse celebration of 1976 where they're going to turn the riverfront into a Miami Beach," and the universities, whose moratorium on land-buying will soon expire...
John Moore guesses that his chances for election are 50-1 against and this is probably a conservative estimate. Without a slate, campaign funds, or a well-known political name, the obstacles to election are almost insurmountable...
...second major issue is rent control. Evans speaks for her slate in advocating full tenant control of the city's rent control board, and says that rent should be no more than 10 per cent of a person's income...
...third police issue this year is the appointment of a civilian police commissioner--an outgrowth of the Lawrence Largey incident last fall--and civilian review board. Candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's good government organization, and those on the Grass Roots Organization (GRO) slate, generally favor both measures...
This year for the first time, prompted by Cambridge's complicated voting system of proportional representation, the Independent candidates--mostly old-style, ethnic Democrats--have banded together in a formal slate. While it is a slate in name only, with its members holding different positions on major issues, it is expected to help the conservative voter identify his kind of politicians...