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BOSTON -- Boston s longest-serving mayor, Thomas Menino, says he does not plan to seek re-election for an unprecedented sixth term.The popular Democratic mayor planned a formal announcement at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday at Boston s historic Faneuil Hall. This was the toughest decision I have made in my whole life, Menino told WBZ-FM on Thursday. Menino was hospitalized fo stanley mug r eight weeks in the fall after a respiratory infection and a blood clot that was complicated by a spinal fracture and diabetes, but he told the Boston Herald health issues played a small portion in his decision. I feel better now than I did a year ago. That s a fac stanley cupe t, he told the Herald. The 70-year-old Menino promises to go full tilt until his last day in office.His decision not to run again is expected to trigger a political scramble to replace him as a new generation of political figures eye the mayor s office.City Councilor John Connolly announced his mayoral intentions last month, regardless of Menino s decision. But Menino had been considered a heavy favorite had he opted to run.As recently as January, Menino delivered an upbeat assessment of the city during his annual state of the city address. Menino used a cane to walk to the podium and spoke vigorously about his plans for Boston. At the time, Menino gave no indication of whether he d decided to seek a sixth term this year. Our progress is real. Our future is br stanley cup ight. The state of our city is str Epzw Health Care Progress Report: October 5
CBS Former Massachuse stanley cup tts Gov. Mitt Romney said that President Obama gave up control [of health care] at the very beginning and must put aside the extreme liberal wing of his party to pass effective reform. He decided he would hand this over to [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and the House, Romney, who ran a failed bid for the GOP s presidential nomination in 2008, said on CBS The Early Show Thursday. H gourde stanley e did not fashion his own bill with the measures that he thought were critical for the bill. And the House has created something which is, frankly, entirely partis stanley tumbler an. It s not the kind of bipartisanship which the president promised he d bring to Washington. But the suggestion that Mr. Obama s agenda has been dominated by the liberal wing is dubious. In fact, many Democrats have expressed their own frustration at the White House s reluctance to aggressively push for a public option ndash; government-provided insurance designed to compete with private insurers and rein in overall costs.More coverage of Health Care Reform The unrest among the Democrats is fed by the belief that Republicans are more concerned with handing the president a defeat on this hallmark issue than with passing meaningful reform ndash; a view expressed by Rahm Emanuel, Obama s own chief of staff in a New York Times story Wednesday. That feeling has increased speculation that Democrats might use the heft of their congressional majorities to go it alone, ending a |
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