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RICHARD NEAL (D) District 2 (West Central--Northampton; Springfield; Sturbridge...
...midst of a summer of building houses in Appalachia with her church group and taking ballet lessons, the Sidwell Friends senior went off with her mother the first week in August to tour Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley and Yale. One evening they dined at the Spoleto Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts. Two glasses of wine were ordered. The pasta was barely digested before the local paper reported that the underage Chelsea had been drinking. For two days the Boston airwaves and papers buzzed with Chardonnaygate. The state's Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission launched an inquiry. Finally, the newspaper conceded there...
Helplessness. That's what I felt when Massachussetts Governor Bill Weld gerrymandered my hometown--Northampton--out of the 1st congressional district for the sole purpose of trying to get a Republican into Massachusetts' delegation. The summer after 10th grade, I had spent a month volunteering for the campaign of my congressman, John Olver, a retired UMass chemistry professor. I had attended his frenetic victory party, filled with hope for this system I had--or so I thought--learned to work within. Liberalism had its moment in the sun and I felt a part...
...hopeful fact that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn't ultimately work (John Olver is currently US Representative in the 2nd congressional district), my faith in politics was damaged forever...
...Darden, being a public prosecutor, and thus not as rich as a certain criminal lawyer we've already mentioned, just cannot afford not to charge, at least until those book advances come in. But regardless, he is still bringing his message to the common people of Harvard University and Northampton, New York. Plus, it'll be a good show; Darden has yet to release his opinions on the trial and verdict. We can't bear the suspense...