Word: tolman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tolman spoke mainly on community and social service issues, emphasizing housing, education, transportation, environmental protection, and health care. However, he said he hopes to use the state Senate seat as "a platform" to articulate his advocacy for a nuclear freeze and his concerns on national issues and foreign policy...
...Tolman also voiced a commitment to work for Senate rules reform if elected. Bachrach's advocacy of such measures, in defiance of Senate President William Bulger, is widely believed to have cost him a committee chairmanship and considerable influence. Tolman said he believed a coalition of liberal senators could successfully pass reform measures without being penalized...
...Tolman said environmental protection "cannot be overlooked much longer" and cited one gallon of gasoline's potential ability to contaminate 750,000 gallons of drinking water...
Noting that he had served as "president of every class in every school that I have ever attended, including Boston College Law School, Amherst College, and Watertown High," Tolman also said he was the first in his family to attend high school...
James Spiegel, also of Watertown, who attended the event with fellow Eighth District hopefuls Bachrach, Thomas M. Gallagher, and James Roosevelt, said he was "seriously considering" endorsing Tolman...