It looks like "shared leadership" among the membership of the state Senate doesn't go very far when it comes to local power rankings. Though two of Beacon Hill's "big three" — Gov. Charlie Baker and House Speaker Robert DeLeo — made the fifth annual Boston Business Journal Power 50, Senate President Stan Rosenberg did not.
The esteemed business insider news organization described the people making list as the "ones getting things done and leading change in the Boston economy."
There's a silver lining to Rosenberg's exclusion from the list. The BBJ is preparing an addendum list, "16 to watch in 2016," which includes the Amherst Democrat, according to executive editor Doug Banks.
The list also features many members of Baker's cabinet, who derive their power directly from the state's chief executive. Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash, Administration and Finance Secretary Kristen Lepore and Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack all made the list, which also includes Attorney General Maura Healey and UMass President Martin Meehan.
"We have so many new people in the administration now that I think there are a lot of people who are flexing their muscles, so to speak, to influence policy," Banks told WGBH News.
Since taking over leadership of the Senate at the beginning of 2015, Rosenberg has pursued a policy of "shared leadership" to empower members and committee chairmen to direct the chamber's priorities, a break from the tradition of more centralized power emanating from the senate president's bedizened office.
“The president’s focus has been on transforming the Senate into a more open and transparent body while passing legislation that helps the people of the Commonwealth including the bills the Senate has passed in the last three weeks dealing with the opiate crisis, foreclosures, and criminal justice reform," Rosenberg's spokesman Peter Wilson, said in a statement.
Though Rosenberg's predecessor also did not make last year's list, which came at the tail end of her time on the rostrum, former Senate President Therese Murray was included on the 2013 list. DeLeo made the list last year.
No word yet on whether Rosenberg's been invited to the BBJ's shmancy cocktail party of backslapping that celebrates the release of the list.