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Article: Duffy quits as consumer chief after fund-raising questioned
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1997
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Michael T. Duffy, the state's consumer chief and a Republican
candidate for state treasurer, handed his resignation last night to
Acting Governor Paul Cellucci, saying it is too difficult legally to
hold his state job and run a campaign.
Duffy had intended to resign the $75,000-a-year post sometime
early next year, an agreement he says he made with Cellucci when the
acting governor recruited him to run for treasurer earlier this fall.
But nagging questions over fund-raising activities led Cellucci this
week to publicly call for Duffy's resignation.
Duffy said he initially moved up his resignation date to January,
but decided this week to leave immediately because he felt any
campaign ...