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BOSTON--In a morning of wry wit, green ties and Irish sing-alongs, Massachusetts politicians gathered to roast each other yesterday at state Senate President William Bulger's annual St. Patrick's Day Breakfast...
Senate President William Bulger also pointed to the apologetic nature of the speech as one of its outstanding features. "He did acknowledge that the buck stops here," Bulger said...
...Bulger and others noted the speech was short on specifics--particularly specifics about unpopular taxes. "I don't think it was aimed at that," he said...
Senate President William Bulger administered the oath of office to Weld and Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci shortly after noon, ushering in an era of Republican leadership to take charge of a state reeling from the shock of a serious regional recession...
...governor, who supported a sweeping taxrollback referendum in the fall election, remainedresolutely opposed to tax increases in his speechyesterday. But he may face an uphill battlegetting his reform program through thelegislature, which remains in the Democratic handsof Bulger and Weld's Cambridge neighbor, CharlesFlaherty, who was sworn in as House SpeakerWednesday morning...