Phone Polling on the Affordable Housing Overlay

Cambridge residents are being polled by an anonymous group for views on current city councillors, issues facing the city, and their positions on the Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) coming up for a vote. Who is paying for this poll? And, equally importantly, what questions is it asking? And why? 

Poll is coming from a telephone number in Marshfield , Ma. 

Here are the questions
         *as best transcribed and recalled live at the time.
 
I. What are your views on current city councillors?
Answer possibilities: favorable unfavorable, unsure, don’t know. 
             Marc McGovern
             Jan Devereux
            Dennis Carlone
            Craig Kelly
            Allana Mallon
            Sumbul Siddique
            Denise Simmons
            Tim Toomey
           Quinton Zondervan
           *Note this poll includes Jan Devereux who is not running for reelection - which is strange.
 
II What issue concerns you the most currently in the city?
            Affordable Housing
            Traffic
            Education
            Bikes/Bike Lanes
            Schools
            Drugs
            Homelessness
            Other
            * Note that the term "affordable housing" means many different things. We all support more affordable housing, 
             but to some this means rent control, to others it means renter protections, to still others it means building more   
             market rate housing, to still others it means adding more inclusionary housing. None of this is spelled out here.
           **note too, that there is nothing in this poll on climate change or  the environment, infrastructure or planning. Why?

III What do you think about the work that has been done to improve the city squares?
            Central Square
            Inman Square
            *Note: there is nothing here on  Harvard Square, Porter Square, Kendall, or even recent city-approved
            development projects in East Cambridge, Alewife and elsewhere.

IV What is your view of City Council
            Positive
            Negative
            Not sure
            *Note: there is nothing in here asking our views of the "City" (the City Manager - who is coming up for                   
            reappointment next term.
            **Note too: there is nothing in this poll about approval of  the city's Community Development Department that is 
           behind the deeply flawed Affordable Housing Overlay proposal,

V Are you aware or the Affordable Housing Overlay
         Yes/ No
             *Note: good question, but will the poll-takers actually share the results with the public?

VI The Affordable Housing Overlay will enable the city to build 100% affordable housing throughout the city by changing some of the restrictions currently in place (rough transcription).
            Do you support it?
            Do you oppose?
            *Note: the AHO is very complex, why do they not ask separately if we oppose or support individual elements of the
             proposal, like four stories everywhere, seven stories on the corridors, "as of right" (taking away current citizen legal               appeal, or the change in design standards and review oversight.

VII Age

VIII Race

IX Education level
 
In the end key questions remain about who commissioned this poll (an expensive endeavor): is it one of the current city councillors who supports the AHO? Is it a political PAC supporting the AHO (A Better Cambridge most notably)? Was it the City of Cambridge? Who ever it was, they did NOT provide any information of who has paid for this political message/poll? Why did they leave out critical other issues and concerns in the city?