In what has been described as a "major shake-up," new Massachusetts Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has appointed several minority members to key positions and given liberal dissidents banished by predecessor Thomas Finneran important committee chairmanships.

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In what has been described as a "major shake-up," new Massachusetts Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has appointed several minority members to key positions and given liberal dissidents banished by predecessor Thomas Finneran important committee chairmanships. DiMasi is viewed as moving the House to the left of Finneran's more conservative rule, but he says the appointments will bring ethnic, geographic and ideological diversity to the leadership. Members who supported his rival for the speakership, Representative John Rogers, were swept out of power. Representative Robert DeLeo is the new chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Marie St. Fleur, the first Haitian-American to serve in...

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