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alp227

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Fri May 4, 2018, 07:11 PM May 2018

Amid Calls For Resignation, Rosenberg Steps Down And Expresses 'Regret' And 'Sorrow'

Source: WBUR

The political career of a once-powerful figure at the Massachusetts State House comes to a close Friday.

One day after the Senate Ethics Committee concluded former Senate President Stan Rosenberg should have done more to protect people from his now-estranged husband, Rosenberg is leaving the Senate.

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The investigation found evidence that Rosenberg's husband, Bryon Hefner, sexually assaulted and harassed staff and others who had business before the Senate, and that Rosenberg failed to protect the Senate from Hefner whom he knew was "disruptive, volatile and abusive."

Read more: http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/03/senator-rosenberg-resigns

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Amid Calls For Resignation, Rosenberg Steps Down And Expresses 'Regret' And 'Sorrow' (Original Post) alp227 May 2018 OP
You just gave me a heart attack because I misread the name BumRushDaShow May 2018 #1
Same here!!! Auggie May 2018 #3
I was reading it but stopped mid read and asked myself Rosenberg?? who is this berg......... riversedge May 2018 #5
bet this is a huge club here tonight. rurallib May 2018 #6
Guess we gotta have a Friday night PAR-TAY then! BumRushDaShow May 2018 #8
Count me in the club ResistantAmerican17 May 2018 #7
Ditto tavernier May 2018 #10
About time for this bottomofthehill May 2018 #2
Catasrophuck is "disruptive, vile and abusive." Why can't we rid ourselves of him? n/t rzemanfl May 2018 #4
Scared me half to death!!! Lil Missy May 2018 #9

riversedge

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5. I was reading it but stopped mid read and asked myself Rosenberg?? who is this berg.........
Fri May 4, 2018, 07:37 PM
May 2018

I almost had a heart pause also

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