A big day for an old friend.

• Position: Massachusetts - Brief Article

It was Doug Foy Day in Massachusetts--by proclamation of Governor Mitt Romney. CLF's longtime president had signed on as Romney's Chief of Commonwealth Development, a momentous and difficult decision--for Doug and for CLF. So staff and supporters converged on our Boston headquarters and gave Doug the mother of all sendoffs. We "roasted" him, but you only do that to friends.

CLF alum Brian F. Keane was emcee, and he asked, "What about this name change with the Big Dig? You're the second most powerful man in the Commonwealth now, but naming it 'The Big Doug'? I don't know about that." Then Keane mused about having an environmentalist in charge of the "T," and how we'd soon have "the Green Line, the Green Line, the Green Line..."

Maine Advocacy Center director Peter Shelley, a long-time Foy friend and colleague, said, "I don't know who cut your hair back then, but I've seen hedges in [he cited a rundown Boston suburb] that looked better." And Shelley said that Foy "fancies himself to be a PR maven. At one point, Doug suggested that the CLF mascot be Tyrannosaurus Rex, and that our motto be, 'We...