Word: keverian
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Soon after the McGee rebuke, Keverian told McGee he would challenge him for the post of House Speaker at the opening of the 1985 session. The decision was met with a retribution that many saw as typical of McGee's rule...
...Keverian was stripped of majority leadership, and his main ally, Rep. Charles F. Flaherty Jr. --(D-Cambridge), was stripped of his influential post as chairman of the joint taxation committee. The move meant large cuts in pay, staff, and office space for Keverian and Flaherty, and signalled open war between the two most powerful Democrats in the State House...
...abrupt move by McGee also pushed Keverian into an unlikely alliance with the decade-old House reform movement, and alliance that is credited with providing Keverian much of his strength. Keverian, until his removal from the majority leadership, was never in the reformer camp and, in 1983, twice voted against comprehensive legislation to democratize the legislative process in the House...
...Circumstances have brought rules reform and my candidacy together," Keverian told The Crimson this month. But he added, "Absent the rules reform issue, I would still have gained a large number of supporters...
...Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston), a Keverian supporter, said yesterday that the "Dean" of the House, Anthony M. Scibelli (D-Springfield), who controls the gavel until the new speaker is elected, may decide Keverian has enough support to ask for him to be elected by acclamation...