Really. If you have never been to one of these meetings, you must go.
Here is Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito chairing the meeting, as if she didn’t know what was going to happen.
And another of Councillor Jubinville giving a speech, which all the other councillors ignore.
Except Marilyn Devaney. Who agrees.
This is the break that happens when everyone says the Pledge of Allegiance at noon. All business stops. From Wikipedia:
“The Council is composed of eight councilors and the governor or lieutenant governor, who presides over the Council. The Massachusetts Constitution specifies that “the governor, and in his absence the lieutenant governor, shall be president of the council, but shall have no vote in council: and the lieutenant governor shall always be a member of the council except when the chair of the governor shall be vacant.”[4]
The eight councilors are elected every two years, one for each of eight councillor districts, residency in the district is not a requirement. The council membership was originally non elected appointment by the governor. The state constitution upon the prompting of the American Party (Know Nothings) in 1854 was changed to make the council an[5] elected position open to all state residents.[6] The Governor’s Council districts are specially composed. Each district consists of the entirety of five contiguous Massachusetts Senate districts.”
| District | Councillor | Party | Assumed office |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Joseph Ferreira | Democrat | 2015 |
| Second | Robert Jubinville | Democrat | 2013 |
| Third | Marilyn Petitto Devaney | Democrat | 1999 |
| Fourth | Christopher Iannella, Jr. | Democrat | 1993 |
| Fifth | Eileen Duff | Democrat | 2013 |
| Sixth | Terrence Kennedy | Democrat | 2011 |
| Seventh | Jennie Caissie | GOP | 2011 |
| Eighth | Mary Hurley | Democrat | 2017 |
| Source: Massachusetts Government |