Word: welds
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Massachusetts is dominated by Democrats; the legislature has fewer Republicans than Yale has good football players, and though the last Democratic governor was Michael Dukakis, moderate William F. Weld ’66 almost single-handedly embodied the Republican presence in the state over the last decade. The Democrats need a strong opponent to keep them on their toes, to force them to produce innovative and original ideas; it will serve neither them nor the public well if the Republican nominee is a pushover...
...upcoming election ought to emulate the governor’s race between Weld and Senator John F. Kerry in 1996—a clean, serious seven-debate contest in which the candidates sparred over crucial issues like education and crime. Regardless of the outcome, Massachusetts voters deserve to have two reasonable and viable competitors in the governor’s race. Swift, with all her baggage, could not offer a substantive campaign; Romney at least gives the people of this state a serious choice...
Swift, who on Monday received support from former Gov. William F. Weld ’66, gave no prior indication of her wavering commitment to the race...
Byrnes, who graduated from KSG in 1991, has an impressive slacker resume to rival Ferris Bueller’s. During a four-year stint as head speechwriter for former Mass. Gov. William F. Weld ’66, Byrnes “worked” mornings and spent afternoons drinking and playing on a dart team at Drumlins, a bar on Mass. Ave. recently rechristened People’s Republik...
...full advantage of gubernatorial keycard access. After the fact, the two girls began rifling through the legislation on Weld’s desk. Byrnes sent them back to his apartment, fell asleep on the State House lawn for an hour and then wrote a speech in 30 minutes that Weld delivered in front of current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “It was less of an incident than a way of life,” Byrnes says of the jaunt...