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...Carla Johnston last night told a small gathering of the Democratic Club that she is the most experienced of the still-growing field of Democratic candidates vying for the Eighth Congressional District seat...
...Johnston, the only woman Democrat in the race thus far, said that she has developed negotiating skills during her 23 years as an organizer and active member of the Democratic Party. She has served as executive director of Somerville's Metropolitan Area Planning Council and as a 1984 Democratic Party convention delegate for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo...
...Johnston advised voters assessing candidates for Congress to "look at what kind of experience they have working in immense mazes of bureaucracy...
Identifying herself as "a fiscal conservative and a progressive on social issues," Johnston advocated more ambitious U.S. policies on deficit reduction, low-income housing, job training programs, and arms control...
...Johnston discussed a variety of ways to reduce the national deficit before the 12 people in attendance at the freshman Union. She singled out tobacco and nuclear industry subsidies as "pork barrels" which should be purged from the national budget...