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editorial | Harshbarger’s phone call

Let’s not make a deal

  November 15, 2011

As a former state attorney general with good-government credentials, Scott Harshbarger of all people should understand the corrosive nature of behind-the-scenes deals - and understand the benefits of letting the legal process play out. Yet Harshbarger recently called Governor Deval Patrick on the governor’s cellphone on behalf of Michael E. McLaughlin, the former Chelsea Housing Authority executive who abruptly quit after his $360,000 annual compensation was revealed.

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