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Today's vote comes four and a half months after former Rep. Doris Bunte (D-Boston) announced that she would vacate the Suffolk County seat to head the Boston Housing Authority...
Almost a year before the race even starts, handicappers place good money on State Sens. Michael LoPresti Jr. '70 (D-Cambridge), George Bachrach (D-Watertown), Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston), William F. Galvin (D-Boston), and big-time Cambridge lawyer and politico James Roosevelt of FDR fame...
...Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston), a Keverian supporter, said yesterday that the "Dean" of the House, Anthony M. Scibelli (D-Springfield), who controls the gavel until the new speaker is elected, may decide Keverian has enough support to ask for him to be elected by acclamation...
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...
Says liberal State Rep. Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston). "The Massachusetts republicans are dominated by the conservative wing of the party. But where the conservative movement has an intellectual underpinning around the country, there is no intellectual base in the state...