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Petrolati led a troubled redistricting effort, but claimed a limited grasp

By Marcella Bombardieri

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 24, 2010

State Representative Thomas M. Petrolati had a big job. Redrawing the state’s political map after the 2000 Census required weighing the traditional imperative to protect incumbents’ seats against civil rights laws demanding that legislative districts give growing minority communities their own voice. Yet Petrolati professed to have a very limited grasp of the process he led as chairman of redistricting for the House of Representatives.

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