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...elect Kevin H. White resigned as Secretary of State at noon. At 2 p.m. the children, students at "state schools" and the guests of the General Court, arrived for their annual Christmas party. A little later in the afternoon, despite the atemps of Rep. Dever (who likened House Speaker Davoren to Brutus) and a few other disgruntled legislators. John F. X. Davoren (Dem-Milford) was elected Massachusetts' new Secretary of State. And a little bit later in the day the House--under the watchful eye of Santa Claus who apparently finished his Christmas party duties--elected House Majority Leader Robert...
Although the General Court authorized such a takeover and decreed it effective July 1968, it neglected to set any taxes to pay the costs of welfare. Last autumn a tax bill was introduced but Speaker Davoren and the rest of the Democratic leadership weren't too interested in raising taxes and the chances of passing an adequate financing bill were meager. In other words, the Welfare Re-Organization scheme was strictly a paper...
...Davoren, with an eye to the gubernatorial election in 1970, was interested in gaining a more prestigious position than that of Speaker and had his sights set on replacing. White as the Secretary of State. At some point White connected the dire need for state welfare cost assumption with Davoren's lean and hungry look. He then did the inconceivable. On December 8, White announced that he would not resign as Secretary of State until the legislature had financed the welfare re-organization scheme...
...most recent example of this meager performance record was, of course, the irresponsible (and ultimately ineffective) opposition of the Democratic majority in the General Court to the Governor's sales tax plan. In the House, Majority Leader John F.X. Davoren (D-Milford) pledged to oppose the sales tax, but offered no reasonable alternative. In the Senate, President Maurice Donahue (D-Holyoke) continued to oppose the measure until long after all of the substitute measures had been killed. By the end of the battle, almost half of Donahue's supporters, disillusioned with his delaying tactics, deserted him. The image...
...stinging defeats recently administered to the income tax revision plans, political experts across the state are now convinced that the only tax plan that can win approval is the Governor's. There are no longer any alternatives. The halfhearted manner in which House Speaker John F. X. Davoren (D-Milford) led the opposition to the latest sales tax proposal is characteristic of this new attitude. In the words of Rep. James H. Kelly (D-Boston), the leadership "was just going through the motions" in opposing the bill...