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Article: WRIGHT CASE PUTS ATKINS ON FAMILIAR PLAYING FIELD
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 15, 1989
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WASHINGTON - When Rep. Chester Atkins this week became one
of two Democrats on the Ethics Committee to determine that Speaker
Jim Wright broke one or more House rules, he might well have been
thinking back to similar action he took as a Massachusetts state
senator.
Twelve years ago, Atkins chaired the Massachusetts Senate
Ethics Committee that called for the expulsion of two senators,
Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald C. MacKenzie, both of whom left the
body. At that time, he said, "My heart is breaking in this
situation to come out and be the person, in effect, who has to cast
the first stone."
A few months later, Atkins quit the Ethics Committee, calling
the job "untenable," ...