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...Arroyo quickly promised major new initiatives to bolster the fragile economy, which is burdened by a hefty budget deficit, falling manufacturing output and rising unemployment. She also said she would consider a proposal by a top ally, House Speaker José de Valencia, to form a "unity government" that would include representatives from all opposition parties, the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Communist Party...
Romney, who succeeds Jane M. Swift, continues more than a decade of Republican control over the Corner Office in a State House otherwise overflowing with Democrats. In fact it was two Democrats, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who administered the oath of office to Romney and Lt. Governor Kerry Murphy Healy ’82 before a backdrop of other state-wide elected officials, also all Democrats...
Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...
...even snowball’s-chance Republican candidate Bradley H. Jones Jr. With the notable exceptions of the courageous representatives who voted to end Finneran’s tenure, the rank-and-file membership showed the same cowardice that has kept Finneran in office for three previous terms as speaker. When a referendum instructing representatives to vote against Finneran for speaker appeared on the ballot in 18 districts last year, all 18 passed it—but only three of those representatives voted against him. The fact that the other 15 representatives disregarded the express wish of their constituents...
...last six years, Finneran has conducted budget negotiations virtually by himself, encouraged his supporters to overturn a term limit rule that would have made the upcoming two-year term as speaker his last and obstructed the implementation of the Clean Elections law. As much as we’d like to believe that those days are over, Finneran has a long way to go before the people of Massachusetts will believe that Wednesday’s promises of transparency and reform are more than empty resolutions...