Here’s one last nail in the coffin to close out this 15-month long John Rogers-Bob DeLeo soap opera.
Adam Reilly rightly laughed off Rogers’s last-minute denunciation of DeLeo’s coronation. The soon to be ex-Majority Leader claimed, on the one hand, that DeLeo was being installed by the DiMasi-Petrolati machine, while on the other, he whined about [...]
Entries Tagged as 'John Rogers'
Rogers Camp: There was no DiMasi Succession Deal
February 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:John Rogers·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Sal DiMasi
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Democracy happened on Tuesday, and what a mess it left behind. John Kerry beat back some RFK lookalike. Longtime Senate fixture Dianne Wilkerson was overthrown by an astronaut’s daughter in a low-turnout race that broke largely along racial and neighborhood lines.
A machine boss’s daughter brought gubernatorial hellfire upon her head in [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Ed O'Reilly·John Kerry·John Rogers·Legislature·Mayor Menino·Mitt Romney·Sal DiMasi
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Governor Deval Patrick found out what it feels like to be governor last week, as Sal DiMasi’s House finally – finally – got to work advancing the governor’s agenda. It’s only been, what, thirteen months since the inauguration?
Patrick got to see his beloved $1 billion biotech bill emerge from committee. Here’s hoping [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Deval Patrick·Idle Speculation·John Rogers·Sal DiMasi
