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AdamGG

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2. To be fair

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 12:51 PM

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Former Mass. Governor, and much cooler than usual Republican, William Weld, preceded him with a similar stunt over 30 years earlier when he dove into the Charles River in a business suit to demonstrate water quality improvements after new sewage treatment plant (created by Michael Dukakis) went online.

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