State Sen. Joan Lovely, a Democrat who represents part of Essex County, is recovering after a fall contained in the State House on Thursday left her with a concussion.
“I’m OK,” Lovely advised the News Service Friday.
The Salem Democrat, who serves in House management because the assistant majority chief and chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Rules, stated she was exiting her workplace within the early night, across the time the Senate’s formal session adjourned, when one among her sneakers partially slipped off in a fourth-floor hallway.
“And I went to kind of recover it, and I lost my balance and I went over backwards,” Lovely stated. “…The wall happened to be there, and my head hit it.”
The State House options some unforgiving marble flooring and steps. In 2011, Sen. Susan Fargo of Lincoln and Sen. Richard Ross of Wrentham each suffered falls within the historic constructing inside just a few months of one another.
Lovely was taken to Mass. General Hospital on Thursday. She was resting at residence on Friday, and whereas she has a concussion and “pretty bad headache,” stated she is in any other case alright.
On the identical day that she fell, she was celebrating the enactment of her invoice, S.2703, An Act establishing the third Saturday in July as Negro Election Day, making it a state vacation that “commemorates the rich history of civic engagement and involvement among Massachusetts’ Black communities,” in accordance with a press launch.
“Negro Election Day began in 1741, 129 years before the passage of the 15th Amendment and prior to the 13 colonies declaring their independence. Enslaved and free individuals from within Salem and across New England would come together to hold an election of a king or governor, exercising a system of Black self-governance,” the assertion continued. “This annual tradition continued long after African Americans were granted the right to vote in 1870.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”