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Michael Dukakis

Posted by Sini

Ridicules Bill Weld's latest vanity project:

To his detractors, however, Mr. Weld is a dilettante, easily enraptured but quick to lose focus. Critics point to his aborted second term as the governor of Massachusetts. After winning re-election overwhelmingly in 1994, Mr. Weld left his post in 1997 to unsuccessfully pursue an ambassadorship to Mexico. Assessing Mr. Weld’s trajectory after 1994, The Boston Globe editorialized that he’d “slid downhill afterward, enjoying the bumps like a giddy child on a silver snow disk.”

Another Massachusetts governor—the Democrat who preceded Mr. Weld in office—seemed to share this view.

“He’s not serious, is he?” asked Michael Dukakis, addressing his successor’s Empire State ambitions. “I mean, he got so bored around here that he quit, wanted to go to Mexico. What’s he going to do in Albany, if Boston was so boring?”

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