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DiMasi emerging as top power on Beacon Hill

Shows clout as Patrick, Murray finding footing

By Lisa Wangsness
Globe Staff / May 21, 2007

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When Salvatore F. DiMasi was elected to lead the House 2 1/2 years ago, his colleagues knew him as a top enforcer for outgoing Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, a backslapping jokester who understood how to work the floor. The press knew him as a behind-the-scenes player who preferred not to make news. The public hardly knew him at all. (Full article: 1718 words)

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