Murray could become state's first woman senate president if Travaglinazi goes
BOSTON -- On Beacon Hill, Sen. Therese Murray has honed a reputation as a tough-as-nails number cruncher, the senate's no-nonsense budget chief unafraid of putting top officials on the hot seat.
Now the chairwoman of the powerful Senate Ways and Means Committee could be on the verge of breaking one of the remaining glass ceilings at the Statehouse.
The Plymouth Democrat is the presumed front-runner to succeed Senate President Robert Travaglini if he steps down. She would also be the first woman to head either legislative body.
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While other names have been circulating at the Statehouse as possible alternatives to Murray, no one has officially thrown their hat in the ring, and it's not certain who else could round up the magic number of 21 senators, a majority of the 40-member body, needed to win the top post.
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Murray, who has lived in Plymouth for over three decades, previously worked as mitigation manager for the Massachusetts Highway Department, community relations coordinator for American Cable Systems and founder and treasurer of South Shore Cablevision Inc.
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The debate on gay marriage, pro and con
March 12, 20041
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Senator Therese Murray, Democrat of Plymouth: "Listen to your own brain, as well as your heart. Know there are families out there who don't look like you, who don't act like you, but since 1996 in this commonwealth, we have allowed gays and lesbians to adopt children. Forty percent of children adopted have gone to gay and lesbian families."
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The Trav countdown has officially begun
by: David
Sat Mar 17, 2007 at 13:17:46 PM EDT
Sure, we all knew it was coming. But now it's official: the board of the MA Council of Community Hospitals has authorized the initiation of negotiations with a lawyer for MA Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-E. Boston) for Trav to become the Council's leader.
With this much information leaking out, it seems extraordinarily unlikely that a deal won't be reached, and soon. The only possible stumbling block, it seems to me, is that apparently the Council will have to substantially increase the dues it charges its member hospitals to pay for the large salary needed to reel in Trav, and at some point the hospitals, who are generally not in great financial shape, might start to balk. Still, one assumes that they'll figure something out.
All of which means that, by all accounts, Sen. Therese Murray (D-Plymouth) will soon be the Senate President. Murray, to her credit, voted against the anti-marriage amendment, so the presumed chair of the next ConCon is one of the good guys in that respect. There are, however, some other concerns out there about Murray, though unless something new emerges I doubt they'll keep her out of the President's chair. Rumor has it that she's got more Senators than she needs already committed to voting for her, and those stories don't strike me as big or bad enough to cause them to renege.
Sal DiMasi seems to me the likely beneficiary of all this, since it'll take Murray a while to get her operation rolling on the Senate side. Other thoughts?
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