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Two former Senate leaders die

Former Senate President Kevin Harrington died Thursday. Former Senate Majority Leader Walter Boverini died yesterday.

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More criminal acts tied to state Senate

The Globe reports a Senate page was arrested yesterday on a variety of charges, including armed robbery. The Herald has more details, including a note about how state Sen. Therese Murray could not be reached for comment because she was busy dealing with the resignation of state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.

Innocent, etc.

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Wilkerson withdraws from race but won't quit job - yet

She promises another announcement on Nov. 5 about her position as a state senator. Her term runs out in January.

The Globe reports she made the statement after a meeting with black clergymen, a number of whom called on her to resign yesterday.

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Wilkerson to stay in race

Will make U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, who brought the charges against her, an issue, the Globe reports.

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Chuck Turner stands by Wilkerson

Boston Daily gets ahold of Councilor Turner, who tells the media to look up what Jesus said about juries or something and leave poor Wilkerson alone, judge not and all that. He also says he wouldn't support Sonia Chang-Diaz because she lives in a white neighborhood:

She's not part of our district.

Now what about Rep. Byron "Z" Rushing?

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Yet more allegations about Dianne Wilkerson

The Phoenix reports on two more issues involving Wilkerson:

One involves a questionable personal loan from a powerful developer who has dealings with the State Senate, and the other involves, yet again, failure to file tax returns, this time for a nonprofit she has run.

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That's one way to clean up errors on your Web site

Dianne Wilkerson's campaign Web site is now www.diannedelivers08.com instead of www.diannedelivers2008.com, so don't even think of going to the latter, especially since the campaign simply pulled the plug on it, rather than doing anything so radical and risky as redirecting people who click there to the new site.

On Monday, the Herald reported the old site still listed endorsements from pols who no longer back Wilkerson, now that she's no longer the Democratic nominee for the 2nd Suffolk State Senate seat. The new site lost the endorsement list, along with the "20" in the URL.

Via PolitickerMA.

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Dianne Wilkerson campaign rally disguised as voter-registration drive

Chris Faraone reports on the "Hip-Hop Voter Registration Rally" at the Reggie Lewis Center yesterday:

... There were two women on stage at the Reggie Lewis Center who were heavy-handedly boosting the senator. One even taught the teens where to write "Wilkerson" on the ballot in case they are not given stickers. ...

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