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Brad Williams Calls on Mike Rush to Address Probation Department Scandal

May 27, 2010 in Patronage Jobs, Rush Williams Walsh by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Brad Williams

Update: Rush denies involvement in note to Roslindale Transcript

Brad Williams and Rep. Mike Rush are both candidates for State Senate in the Suffolk and Norfolk District currently represented by Marian Walsh who is not seeking re-election.

Rep. Rush has been deeply entangled in the recent Probation Department patronage jobs scandal. It has been reported that Rep. Rush is one of the people who are able to help family and political supporters secure jobs at Probation, and that he was instrumental in getting a promotion for his father James Rush. Two years after being promoted to Chief Probation Officer, James Rush retired under a cloud of allegations of racial and sexual harassment of two employees at Probation. It is said that Mike Rush has been seeking revenge against Justice Mulligan ever since.

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Senate Reacts to Probation Department Scandal

May 25, 2010 in Creem Rudnick, Eugene O'Flaherty, Patronage Jobs, Winslow Nacewicz by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Cindy Creem

Reforms likely to pass the Senate but not Robert DeLeo’s House of Representatives.

Following Sunday’s Globe exposé of patronage hires at the Probation Department, and yesterday’s move by the Supreme Judicial Court to suspend Probation Commissioner O’Brien, the Senate today proposed a budget amendment to reform some the Probation Department’s most egregious  structural problems, with a proposal that reduces some of the Legislature’s influence in Probation Department hiring.

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Suffolk & Norfolk Senate District Candidates: Rush, Walsh, Williams

April 17, 2010 in Rush Williams Walsh by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

CandidateMediaFinanceNotes
» Mike Rush (D) $6,423 incumbent
» Mike Walsh (D) $1,151
» Brad Williams (R) $7,005
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Mike Rush running against Marian Walsh

February 26, 2010 in Rush Williams Walsh by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

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Mike Rush

Rep. Michael Rush, a fourth-term House member, is running  Sen. Marian Walsh’s open seat.

Walsh announced on her web site that she is not running for re-election. In the past few years she has attempted to make several moves out of the Senate, at one time accepting and then abandoning a job with the Patrick administration. Now that the seat is officially open its likely new candidates will appear.

Rush is known as a relatively independent Democrat who doesn’t march in lockstep with the party leadership.

 

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