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Candidate visits, listens to WMass

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:14:30 +0000

The Republican – People attending Republican lieutenant governor candidate Richard R. Tisei’s roundtable luncheon Friday have had enough of state taxes and enough of the regulations they say are choking business in the state.

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Taxpayers Pay Price for Democrats’ Inaction

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:12:25 +0000

As legislative conferees try to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate budget proposals for fiscal year 2011, the already difficult task of forging a compromise between the two legislative branches seems an even more daunting challenge.

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Tisei Makes Stop in Lunenburg

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:09:17 +0000

LUNENBURG — State Sen. Richard Tisei said Monday that an unfriendly business climate fostered under Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration is driving jobs and people out of the state.

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Senate GOP estimates reform amendments would save $1 billion

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:33:14 +0000

BOSTON — Senate Republicans charted a three-day electoral minefield for their Democratic colleagues Tuesday, highlighting budget amendments designed to squeeze out cost savings – while painting their leader, lieutenant governor candidate Richard Tisei, into the role of reformer.

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Mass. Senate has lost another GOP member

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:54:21 +0000

There were five, but now there are only four.

That’s the number of Republicans who currently sit in the Democratic-dominated 40-member Massachusetts State Senate now that state Sen. Scott Brown of Wrentham is heading to the Big Senate in the Sky in Washington.

http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_14293321

Governor’s budget ‘more of the same’

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:36:33 +0000

WBZ Radio interview with Richard Tisei on the governor’s budget

http://www.wbz.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4345775

Department of Transportation gets flak over flacks

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:02:25 +0000

A much-trumpeted consolidation of Bay State transit offices – aimed at cutting jobs and costs – is being flacked by an astonishing 11 taxpayer-funded spin doctors – one more than when the agencies merged in the fall.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1224713

Sheriff to politicians: make inmates pay daily ‘rent’

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:58:02 +0000

The state’s high court handcuffed a New Bedford sheriff’s bid to charge jailbirds $5-a-day rent, but the lawman is calling on Beacon Hill lawmakers to pass a stalled bill that would send the court ruling to the gallows.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1223446

Richard Tisei says Paul Reville should resign

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:51:40 +0000

Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei called on Education Secretary Paul Reville to resign Wednesday, after an inspector general report said that state officials shredded important documents related to a Gloucester charter school’s application. “Personally, I think that the education secretary should resign,” Tisei told the News Service during an interview.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1223609

Transportation payroll soared under Patrick

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:35:43 +0000

As Governor Deval Patrick merges the state’s transportation agencies in an attempt to reduce duplication and waste, a review of payroll records shows that his own administration presided over much of the growth in spending he must now rein in.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/08/
mass_transportation_payroll_soared_under_patrick/

Patrick warns of 2,000 job cuts

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:26:56 +0000

As many as 2,000 state jobs could be eliminated, Governor Deval Patrick warned yesterday, unless unions agree to concessions necessary to help close an estimated $600 million budget shortfall that could trigger spending cuts throughout state government.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles
/2009/10/16/patrick_warns_of_2000_job_cuts/

State lags badly on stimulus spending

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:03:12 +0000

Massachusetts is almost dead last among states in spending federal economic stimulus money for transportation projects, prompting a powerful congressman to sharply rebuke Governor Deval Patrick for not quickly deploying nearly a half-billion dollars to create jobs for struggling families.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles
/2009/10/03/state_lags_badly_on_stimulus_spending/

Is the state political stage set for a rerun of 1990?

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:58:57 +0000

Complete Democratic control on Beacon Hill. A recessionary economy. A governor whose standing has sunk precipitously. A fiscal crisis, with tax hikes in the air.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles
/2009/06/10/is_the_state_political_stage_set_for_a_rerun_of_1990/

Looking for money in a name; Senator sees gold in state facilities

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:40:43 +0000

Imagine heading to Boston’s Gillette Convention Center, or the Coca-Cola Exhibition Center. Under a state Senate proposal, local parks and pools could be named after neighborhood hardware stores or pharmacies.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles
/2009/06/09/state_senator_pushes_naming_rights_proposal/

Turnpike director under fire after Easter backups

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:05:13 +0000

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is standing behind Mass. Turnpike Authority executive director Alan Lebovidge. This after Senate minority leader Richard Tisei is calling for Lebovidge to resign, following those massive Easter toll backups on the Pike.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/04/16/Turnpike-director-under-fire/1239917210.html

Catching up with Tisei

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:15:28 +0000

As the Senate minority leader, Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, says he hopes to be a voice for the people as he birddogs the issue of state spending and other bureaucracy for all Massachusetts citizens.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/wakefield/news/x987430057