Word: finneran
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Jones describes the Romney’s relationship with House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan, as fraught with tension...
...state. Nonetheless, Romney’s budget put funding for rape crisis centers on the chopping-block—not for a mere reduction, but for complete annihilation. Now that the House’s leadership—under the inept decision-making of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan—has kept this horrific cut in the proposed budget, this grave duty falls to the Senate leadership and to the House’s membership...
...there a chance that Rushing’s reform-minded platform has finally caused Finneran to change his stripes? He and his crack team of sycophantic representatives would have us believe so. In a speech to the House that had just voted him in overwhelmingly, Finneran uncharacteristically claimed that he intended to foster transparency and debate in state government, promising that he would “actively work to eliminate” the impression that he has stifled more liberal viewpoints and noting that “it is not only important to hear, but to listen...
...difficult to hear these words coming from a man like Finneran and take them for anything more than the empty platitudes we all crank out around New Year’s, only to consign them to eternal oblivion a few weeks later. There is little doubt that Finneran will “listen” to what his few vocal opponents say—but it’s what he’ll do afterwards that counts...
...last six years, Finneran has conducted budget negotiations virtually by himself, encouraged his supporters to overturn a term limit rule that would have made the upcoming two-year term as speaker his last and obstructed the implementation of the Clean Elections law. As much as we’d like to believe that those days are over, Finneran has a long way to go before the people of Massachusetts will believe that Wednesday’s promises of transparency and reform are more than empty resolutions...