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“I’m sorry and I regret my comments,” Mariano said in a statement. “It was a poorly delivered attempt to humor referencing my personal experience as a college student in the 60s when my car was stolen, which I had shared with folks at the event prior to the program.”
Mariano and more than a dozen other Democratic state lawmakers, including several fellow members of the State House’s leadership, had appeared at a press conference Tuesday morning at a housing complex in the South End to endorse Santiago, who lives in the neighborhood.
Ahead of his prepared remarks, Mariano noted that he attended school “right around the corner from here” at Northeastern University, muttering that he wouldn’t “tell my story about my cars in this neighborhood.”
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Massachusetts House speaker Ron Mariano seeks to extend mail-in voting through June
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano plans to push for a three-month extension of the COVID-19 vote-by-mail law that contributed to a record-breaking turnout in the 2020 presidential election.
Mariano, a Quincy Democrat, issued a statement Wednesday night confirming the House will seek to extend the mail-in voting law until June 30 so local elections can continue with a vote-by-mail option in the short term. The current mail-in voting law expires in March.
“Since we first enacted vote by mail, it has proven to be secure and even increased voter turnout in many places,” Mariano said in a statement. “The House looks forward to making vote by mail a permanent way for residents to exercise their right to vote during and beyond the pandemic.”