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...Kraus has found that organizational, chaos has affected him in more serious matters than missing furniture. Freshman Senators must file all the bills they want considered in their first year by December, one month before their inauguration. But when Kraus asked if there was a program to help him learn his way around in the critical pre-inaugural months, everyone said no. However, on his third day in the Statehouse, he found that there would soon be a two week long orientation program, dating back to 1931. More recently, he pulled a muscle going to work and missed...
Despite the difficulties of adjustment, the Senator has moved swiftly to address the critical issues he sees facing the Commonwealth. Balancing services with the need for far reaching tax reform was the heart of Kraus's campaign. He said he decided to run when he saw the "irresponsible" press releases announcing the candidacies of two opponents release that promised simultaneously to cut taxes and preserve services. Kraus believes the voters when forced to choose between cutting services and paying taxes, will choose the latter...
Virtually all legislative initiatives in Massachusetts take shape in point Senate House committees, and it is here that Kraus ha focused his early efforts. He received his top two choices: Taxation, where he will serve under Senate Chairman John W. Ulver, the only other Ph.D. in the Senate, and Human Services and Elderly Affairs...
...services side, the Senator wants to specialize in elderly affairs, hoping to divert a showdown between the elderly and the other residents of the state. Kraus has also begun a fight for a commission to study ways to reduce Massachusetts over reliance on the property tax, a tax that hits the poor and the elderly out of proportion to their income. Despite Proposition 21/2--a sweeping tax cut passed in 1980. Kraus guesses that property revaluation which often shifted the tax burden from businesses to homes means that 85 percent of Massachusetts homes will pay more property tax than before...
...Kraus's thoughtful, long run approach to these issues seems to have committed him to a political life as long as the voter, of Lexington and other towns are willing to let it last. He has scrapped early plans to remain with GSAS part time. For now, the only connection between Kraus and Harvard is that which exists in the minds of his colleagues and in the skills he perfected as an administrator here. As for its effect on others. Kraus is ambivalent, "It's both a plus and a minus...