Word: importantally
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Wolf says she believes that it is important for local officials to make clear their feelings on the issue so they can communicate constituents' views to state and national politicians.
"I think it's been a real important issue," Hanig says. "A lot of people have asked me whether I was prochoice before they would even take my literature, and clearly that happened right after the Webster case."
Johnson says housing concerns have taken precedence over the abortion question. "Those issues have sort of pushed other issues like abortion and recycling, which I think are important to the city, to the back burner," he says.
Abortion will be especially important in races for state seats from Cambridge, says Sandra M. Graham, a former state representative and retiring Cambridge City Councillor.
Graham says since there are more women than men in Cambridge and Massachusetts and because they tend to have better voting records than their male counterparts, abortion will be the most important political issue in Cambridge.