Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Swift Action

A joint statement from Murray, DeLeo and Patrick:
“The news of yesterday’s indictments and the nature of the charges are deeply disturbing. All three of us have put forth serious proposals dealing with ethics, lobbying and campaign finance reform, the details of which are currently being negotiated in conference committee. In light of the recent developments, we believe it is critical that we stand united in our shared commitment to restoring the public trust. Therefore, we have agreed that ethics reform legislation will be passed and signed into law swiftly that includes the best provisions from all three of our proposals. We owe the people of Massachusetts nothing less.”
Well, if there's some good to come out of this whole DiMasi mess, there's that. At least now we're likely to get the strongest reform out of the three. Maybe this will even reflexively push the strongest, cost-saving reforms on issues surrounding the Pike and MBTA.

5 comments:

Quriltai said...

Huh...they can work together if they so choose...

Anonymous said...

If they make the reforms apply to themselves and not just the incoming legislators great. Sad that such a string of blatant corruption was needed to get this reaction though.

Anonymous said...

Where's the reform? They won't even give up Bunker Hill day. What a disgrace.

Ryan said...

Giving up "Bunker Hill Day" isn't really reform. They should just give everyone else that day, too. More than one way to skin a cat. Regular people are already overworked, including many Suffolk state employees.

Anonymous said...

And Evacuation Day? You are absolutely amazing. Overworked and state employees don't belong in the same sentence.

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