"She gets upset when she's losing something like [special education]," Rauch says. "It matters considerably more to her than to the average state representative."
Wolf says the skyrocketing cost of housing in Cambridge--and protecting funding for affordable housing--is another of her top priorities.
Among the problems, she says, is Harvard and MIT encroaching on the rest of Cambridge without thinking through the short-term consequences of expansion.
"The university has a 200- to 300-year outlook," she says. "The rest of us look at being dead in 200 or 300 years."
Tried and True
In a district where winning the Democratic primary means winning the general election, the biggest threat comes from other Democrats.
When Wolf first ran for state representative in 1996, her primary battle with then-city councillor Galluccio split the 27th Middlesex in two.
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