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Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:22
From Boston.com:
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Also related: check out this Boston Globe article on Speaker’s power being the key factor:
Legislators past and present attributed the trend to the concentration in recent years of increased power in the hands of the leader of a lawmaking body of 160 members, 90 percent of whom are Democrats.
With his indictment yesterday by a federal grand jury on fraud and conspiracy charges, Salvatore F. DiMasi, who resigned as speaker in January, follows fellow Democrats Thomas M. Finneran, and Charles F. Flaherty, both of whom pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges. Prior to that, it had been 32 years between indictments of a Massachusetts speaker of the house.