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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...
...Tommy McGee helped his home city of Lynn tremendously," says Richard J. Doherty, Harvard's Director of State Relations, adding. "While Flaherty isn't the Speaker, those benefits could well come Cambridge...
...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...
Goldman, who distributed red buttons to supporters reading "The K Team," says that even if McGee mops up all the undecided representatives, he will still be 12 or 13 votes short in the all-important Democratic caucus...
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...