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Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger and Treasurer Robert Crane led a half-hour tribute to O'Neill, featuring praise and recollections from Speaker of the Massachusetts House George Kevarian, Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and U.S. Senators John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy...
...LoPresti has consistently opposed changes to the existing system, which allows Bulger to kill any bill be opposes, to appoint all committee chairmen, to hold all-night meetings in which dubious laws are passed, and to punish senators who are not loyal...
...would replacing LoPresti with Govoni make a difference? Govoni is one of several rules reform candidates around the state running for spots in the Senate. Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), who is challenging Bulger for the Senate Presidency in January, estimates that if the reform candidates are successful, as many as 17 senators out of 40 will openly support rules changes. This may be overly optimistic, but electing Govoni and other reformers will be an important step in wresting control of the senate from the likes Bulger and LoPresti...
...retorting, Shea has attacked Atkins for failing to blow the whistle on the worst excesses of the Senate President, Atkins buddy and legislative strongman William F. Bulger (D-Boston). For instance, Atkins, who a chairman of the Ways and Means committee is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, did nothing to stop legislators who granted themselves a "Halloween. Night pay raise" two years ago without floor debate or recorded vote. Atkins claimed he opposed the pay raise amendment while it was in Ways and Means and that he "took a walk" while legislators held a voice vote...
Though Democrats hold a vast majority of seats in the legislature, the ideological make-up is strongly centrist. Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and House Speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn) are considered centrist, if not non-ideological, and liberals like Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) and Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline) have little influence on policy matters...