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Cambridge's state legislators will be carrying a lot more clout around Beacon Hill in the next few months, after newly-elected House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) announced key leadership appointments over the weekend...
...overhaul of the Legislature's rules and chairmanships, Keverian named two Democratic state representatives from Cambridge, Rep. Charles F. Flaherty. Jr. and Rep. Saundra Graham, as House Majority Leader and chairman of the Federal Financial Assistance Committee, respectively...
Both Flaherty and Graham supported Keverian in his year-long battle to wrest the Speaker's gavel from Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who ruled the 160-member body for almost a decade...
...While Keverian repays his political debts, the Cambridge delegation stands to emerge as a powerful force within the Statehouse...
...What a Keverian victory will mean in as yet undetermined. The legislative process has already been loosened over the last year under McGee's rule--in what many see as a response to the Keverian challenge--and many say Keverian would still resist watering down the power of the Speaker as much as the rules reformers would like...