Word: reich
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...don’t owe anybody anything in the sense that I am not part of Beacon Hill,” Reich says. “I think the public wants someone who is fresh...
Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration and a late-comer to the race, was also the first candidate to present his 10,000 qualifying signatures to the Mass. secretary of state earlier this month—a display of his grassroots popularity...
...Reich, like competitor Steve Grossman, has situated himself as a Beacon Hill outsider...
...Reich does stress his prior experience at the federal level as beneficial training for fulfilling the duties of the corner office—running a federal department with an annual budget larger than that of Massachusetts...
...Were these motives enough for a made-in-Washington coup? Though there is no evidence that the U.S. played an active role, Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich told Time that he had, before the coup, met with several Venezuelan delegations in Washington, many of whom wanted help in ousting Ch?vez. While Reich concedes that the U.S. encouraged the demonstrations that led to the coup, "the U.S. had no association with this plot," he insists. "We told them, 'Sorry, we?re not in that business...