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KATHI-ANNE REINSTEIN, Massachusetts state representative, after the withdrawal of a controversial proposal by state senator Jarrett Barrios to restrict the serving of Fluffernutters--marshmallow and peanut-butter sandwiches--in elementary schools...
...story about Kerry's Massachusetts days has been circulating in the national media--but as it turns out, only half of it has been told. It starts with Kerry arriving at a fund-raising event at the Irish American Association in a Boston suburb in 1996. State representative William Reinstein, the class clown of the statehouse, strode over to Kerry and introduced himself as Butchy Cataldo, a former legislator. Kerry, long mocked by local pols for spending too little time in the state, fell headlong into the trap. "Butchy!" he said, slapping Reinstein's back and telling him how good...
...Reinstein died in 1998, but his daughter Kathi-Anne Reinstein remembers him telling her the tale. "My father was a complete comedian," says Reinstein, who now represents the district her father once did. But she says the rest of the story is more instructive. "Kerry and his office did call my father up and say, 'We're sorry. We get it. We're going to do better.' And anytime I have called John Kerry's office, they have been amazing. He's absolutely fantastic to me and my district...
Last year, after a police officer's widow in Reinstein's district had packed all her belongings, she was told she could not move into federally subsidized housing because she made $38 more than the maximum allowed. Reinstein asked Kerry's office for help. A staff member immediately called the woman and her son, Reinstein remembers. "The son called me in tears ... All of a sudden, [he's] getting calls from Senator Kerry's office. You don't understand how much that means." The woman was accepted into the housing complex. Today, whenever Reinstein sees Kerry, he always remembers...
...according to Gila Reinstein, a Yale spokesperson, "Yale has not issued a policy specific to same-sex services but the overarching policy would apply...