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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:04 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:04
From the New York Times:
“The hypocrisy is astounding,” the state House minority leader, Bradley H. Jones Jr., told The Boston Globe on Thursday. “If we had a Republican governor right now, would we be getting the same letter?”
Even if Mr. Kennedy’s death prompts a change of heart, the State Legislature is not set to return until after Labor Day.
In the United States Senate, Mr. Kennedy’s absence had been felt for months before his death as he underwent treatment for a malignant brain tumor at his home in Cape Cod. As deliberations began on a major health overhaul effort — an issue Mr. Kennedy called “the cause of my life” — he had to hand off his chairmanship of the health committee to a close friend, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut.