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These changes are bound to have an effect in the Senate, and you will be able to spur them along by supporting Mark Govoni September 18 in his primary fight against Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70 for the Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat. LoPresti has represented a district that includes East Boston, Winthrop, and part of Cambridge (which includes Harvard) for more than a decade, and he has become symptomatic of problems in the senate...
...GOVONI, a union organizer for six years, has centered his surprisingly successful challenge on the issue of cleaning up the state legislature. He quite correctly argues that the issue is quite simple: do we want a closed, patronage system, or a legislature that functions like a normal open democratic body? LoPresti has recently said that he too supports rules reform, and has argued that the issue is not black-and-white, but rather a matter of what sorts of reforms should be made...
...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...
...rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...
Deplorable Shot. When Govoni started back to the jungle with help, he could not find the couple. Soon fog and darkness closed in, and the searchers gave up for the night. Next day, parties of 4,000 civil guards, police, soldiers and Boy Scouts beat the bushes until they found Harrison and Miss Courtney, both exhausted after a sleepless night and suffering from exposure. While they recovered in a Ciudad Trujillo hospital, the police put Weldy in a cell until they could check his story that the shot was an accident...