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...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...
...Wolf says she abides by the "all politics is local" philosophy, inherited from her famed predecessor, O'Neill. Before becoming a representative, Wolf was a four-time member of the Cambridge School Committee, five-time city councillor and mayor of the city...
...Wolf says her own background has helped her to appreciate the needs of immigrants and lower-class people...
...five, Wolf fled with her family from Austria, fearing Nazi persecution. She grew up in a Boston boarding house and was the first in her family to go to college...
...Wolf's first speech before the state House was to propose $40 million in funding to help immigrants, who had been cut off from social services by federal welfare reform...