71.   Schueler admitted Swift last Tuesday after the acting governor began experiencing contractions.

72.   She has been an energetic note-taker during her high-profile, controversial career as lieutenant governor and acting governor.

73.   Secretary of State Rebecca Cook said Lt. Gov. Roger B. Wilson would step in as acting governor.

74.   Still, Swift aides are convinced that the acting governor can recover politically and emerge as a strong candidate in the fall.

75.   Still, the acting governor, a self-described policy wonk, said she was paying less attention than usual to the twists and turns of Bay State politics.

76.   Speaking to reporters, Cellucci portrayed his decision as the result of time demands he faces as acting governor.

77.   Still, Harshbarger and lieutenant governor nominee Warren Tolman called on the acting governor to suspend Vezina until the new investigation is complete.

78.   That advantage is enhanced considerably by the fact that the acting governor is a liberal Republican, and thus not all that ideologically different from Harshbarger.

79.   The acting governor ended the call and alerted her doctors, who then decided to deliver the babies.

80.   The acting governor has a brother in Charlestown with a spare bedroom, if official business keeps her in Boston into the evening.