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	Excerpts of Speech The Boston Globe April 11, 2006 http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/11/excerpts_of_speech/ Thomas F. Reilly told a Democratic gathering Saturday in Newburyport about his record as attorney general, including his investigations of Harvard Pilgrim, auto insurance rates, and the Archdiocese of Boston. "Six years ago, when Harvard Pilgrim was going under ... 1 million members were in danger of losing their health insurance. One person stepped up. I stepped up, we put that company into receivership, took control of that company. ... "There weren't many other people in politics that were willing to stand up to the Archdiocese of Boston in the sexual abuse of children. You're looking at someone who did, and changed things forever. It changed things forever. With the guts to send state troopers into that chancery. And two days later he was in Rome, and he never came back. He never came back. That's what a difference leadership can make. "Whether it's auto insurance, whether it's the ... landfill right here in Newburyport, one person is fighting for you and fighting for the people of Massachusetts."
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