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Harvard affiliates occupy important positions in the legislature as several serve as the chairs of state committees. In addition the current speaker of the House is George Keverian '53 (D-Everett). Clearly there is an impressive Crimson coterie on Beacon Hill, but the University's lobbyists say they do not need to exploit any influence they might have with these politicians...
Cambridge Democratic City Committee Meeting: Rep. George Keverian will speak. Cambridge Multi-cultural Arts Center, Bullfinch Courthouse, 7:30pm...
...quickly things change, and what a turn for the worse by Keverian. We denounce his infringement on the First Amendment and his tightening of statehouse politics. We urge state leaders quickly to get back on the path of progressive, open politics--a road which seemed to have a promising future after the ouster of McGee...
Running the Democratic Party is almost synonymous with running Massachusetts. By barring the press from these meetings, Keverian and the rest of the party is preventing the public from seeing the many different viewpoints which contribute to the formulation of state policy. Instead the public only sees the finished products which the Democrats, by virtue of their vast majority, push through the statehouse...
Moreover, many newer politicians, or politicians with new ideas--on the basis of which Keverian ran when he bucked McGee--will be disenchanted with a system denying the public acess to them. The usual disheartening effects of backroom politics will surely result...