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Enter Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), lifetime politician and an unlikely though erstwhile challenger to the throne. For 17 years, Keverian had been the most loyal subject in the realm, one of McGee's personal favorites who was eventually rewarded with the title of Majority Leader. Whenever McGee had a tough floor fight on his hands, he let Keverian do the dirty work, and the quick-witted popular legislator came through time after time. Looking ahead as heir apparent, Keverian says he made an unwritten agreement with McGee back in 1982: the longtime Speaker would retire from polities...
State Rep. George Keverian (D-Everett), chairman of the special committee, said last week that broadcasts would open the legislative process to the members of the public who usually can't see the House in action. He added that now the long speeches on the floor could "drive the whole state crazy, instead of just...
...addition to professors from the Kennedy School of Government, featured speakers at the seminar will include Govt. elect Michaei S. Dukakis, Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.). State Rep. George Keverian, and State Sen. William M. Bulger...
...bill King filed yesterday was given a prompt public hearing by the Transportation Committee. House Majority Leader George Keverian said debate on the measure would begin today. Meanwhile, with holiday shopping underway, the business community mounted a lobbying effort to get the legislature to resolve the month-long crisis...
Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...