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...McGee, in his first comment on the speakership fight since the Keverian announcement, yesterday told the Associated Press, "I'm not about to walk away or resign from a job I was elected to," adding, "It's as simple as that...
...McGee said neither he nor Keverian now control a majority. A McGee side said the Speaker senses "softness" in Keverian's support and is calling House Democrats for support, the AP reported...
...speaker has spent as much time a top the State House ladder as Tom McGee, and McGee's hardnosed ruling style has built up some resentment among the rank-and-file. "People have had small and large grievances with McGee for a while," Michael A. Goldman, political consultant to the Keverian campaign, said yesterday...
This resentment came to head last year when McGee--whom Keverian maintains had promised to leave his post at the end of this year--decided to keep the speakership. Keverian, then the second-ranking Democrat in the House as majority leader, had expected to follow McGee as speaker and took the McGee decision as a betrayal...
Soon after the McGee rebuke, Keverian told McGee he would challenge him for the post of House Speaker at the opening of the 1985 session. The decision was met with a retribution that many saw as typical of McGee's rule...