LEONARD J. RUSSELI

"I want to protect the citizens of Cambridge from various forces which are continuously threatening them," Leonard J. Russell says.

"The issues are exactly the same as they've been over the last ten years--university sprawl, rent control, condominium conversion, and police services, and we're still trying to solve the same problems," Russell, who served on the Council from 1974 to 1977, contends.

"What do I think about university expansion? It should be stopped. Period. We've got to stop these giants from eating Cambridge up with their big bucks." Russell declares. "They're encroaching, they're causing the housing shortage, and they're causing the rent problems and the rising prices," he adds.

Russell is also a backer of vacancy decontrol. "We need some rent control to protect the elderly and to minimize tension between landlords and tenants," he added.

SEVERLIN SINGLETON

Severlin Singleton, former assistant district attorney who quit his post to run for City Council says rent control is his number one concern.

"Without rent control, we would have skyrocketing rents and many low and middle income people would not be able to afford it," Singleton says. "My platform is that rent control is here to stay," he adds.

Singleton, a 30-year-old black graduate of Northeastern Law School, served on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in addition to holding his district attorney post.

DAVID SULLIVAN

David Sullivan, one of the few city council candidates campaigning actively among students, is stressing his commitment to rent control, his determined opposition to condominium conversion, and the fact that he is the only tenant on the progressive slate.

Seven years ago, Sullivan fought hard to get students the right to vote in Cambridge. Last year, he drafted the bill passed by the current city council that has slowed the pace of rapid conversion. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School, Sullivan works as an attorney for the secretary of state. A loser by only eight votes in his first council bid a year ago, he has won the endorsement of both the Cambridge Civic Association and the Rent Control Task Force.

WALTER J. SULLIVAN

Walter J. Sullivan first won a position on the City Council in 1959 and has been a member ever since, a longevity record that has earned him as many friends as any man in Cambridge.

For Sullivan, the finances of the city are of vital importance. "It is crucial to have the revenue which the real estate tax brings in," he says. "With rent control we just don't get sufficient income to keep taxes down."