Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Without primaries, all this will change. But for now, at least the politicians themselves are bravely soldiering on. Massachusetts voters decided to stay home, but Representative Alice K. Wolf of north and west Cambridge busily worked to get people out to vote. Seemingly oblivious to the waste of time, energy and money that were yesterday's primaries, her campaign headquarters were buzzing with activity, focused on beating the most inscrutable of political opponents--voter apathy...
...this year, it appears that Alice Wolf's growl has scared off all of her opponents...
...Wolf ran unopposed in yesterday's Democratic primary and will faces no Republican opponent in November's general election race for state representative for north and west Cambridge...
...Wolf was first elected in 1996, when she fought now-Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio for the Democratic nomination--a race decided by just 90 votes...
...Wolf, meanwhile, now seeks her third term as state representative for the district that produced two speakers of the House in Massachusetts: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr.--who was later Speaker of the U.S. House--and Charles F. Flaherty, who resigned in 1996 after pleading guilty to tax fraud. Flaherty had held the district for three decades...