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To: Taro who wrote (452161)	1/29/2009 12:12:02 PM
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Mass. House Speaker to resign: "The third consecutive Massachusetts speaker to leave under a cloud" Submitted by crew on 26 January 2009 - 9:28am. Salvatore DiMasi State corruption There has been a rash of high profile state level public corruption over the past few months. The Speaker of the House in Massachusetts maintains that ethics scandals have no role in his decision. We'll see: House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi plans to resign from his powerful post tomorrow and depart the North End legislative seat he has held for three decades, saying yesterday that he is proud of his record and is departing with his "head high" despite ongoing ethics controversies swirling around him. DiMasi - the third consecutive Massachusetts speaker to leave under a cloud - was reinstalled as speaker three weeks ago. But he has remained under public scrutiny, an Ethics Commission investigation, and a pair of grand juries looking at the influence-peddling allegations involving his close friends. "My head is held high and I am proud of my record. That is how I am leaving," DiMasi said in a telephone interview with the Globe late yesterday afternoon, shortly after his staff sent out letters informing all 159 House colleagues of his decision. citizensforethics.org