How Ron Mariano Will Control the Massachusetts State House

Ron Mariano has officially been elected Massachusetts Speaker of the House. Not much is expected to change since Mariano is the handpicked successor of Robert DeLeo, who announced his resignation this month.

Calla Walsh has an excellent summary of everything that is wrong with the current setup of the Massachusetts State House here.

One particular passage that caught my eye was about the January 2017 stipend increases:

Jan 2017: DeLeo re-elected as Speaker; DeLeo leads charge on…