Blog Posts - August 2010

A State Senate ripe for takeover?

By Tom Keyes, on Aug 7, 2010

By Conor
January 29, 2010


The Number One Target
Senate President Therese Murray


In the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Speaker nearly always comes from Boston or a community bordering Boston.  Those districts are the safest of the safe, and the Speaker’s electoral chances are never in doubt.  The same cannot be said for the Senate President, who hails from a region of the state that has grown more conservative every year.