Now Boston.com says DiMasi to Go

Thanks to Red Mass Group for a pointer to this report. The Boston Globe is now reporting that Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is resigning as of Tuesday of this week.

He is going "head high," or so he says.

Here is a link to his letter to his colleagues in the House. This is not a letter of resignation, but rather a letter of intent.

As I have previously posted, this is just treating a symptom and not the disease that infects Beacon Hill. Only the voters can cure that disease and the course of treatment will be painful, but not as painful, over the long run, as continuing the current corrupt system.

Or, are we going for some sort of record for Speakers who left office under an ethical cloud?

Here is Richard Howe's blog posting with a local spin.

And Mimi, from Left in Lowell has this post with a question about the future of the progressive agenda. As an aside, I like the left using the term progressive, so those of us who are pegged as being on "the right" can reclaim liberal, which FDR stole from us back in the 1930s.

Regards -- Cliff