$12G pay hike follows month hiatus

After taking an unheard of monthlong absence from public view this summer, jetting off to Texas, Canada and California this fall, then announcing a $9 million designer makeover of his office, you'd expect Gov. Deval Patrick to be asking for mercy.

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