Bets are going down the Rats are going to change the law real quick and then name Miss Vicki to Ted's seat.
Posted on 08/31/2009 9:32:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to make an announcement this afternoon about special election to fill the US Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Patrick is scheduled to make the announcement in the press briefing room at the State House, according to his staff. No details were released about the substance of the announcement.
[Snip]
It is an election that has considerable national implications, as Democrats try to maintain a 60-seat majority in the Senate.
State lawmakers are also still trying to weigh one of Kennedy's final wishes: He wanted the governor to have the authority to appoint an interim senator, who would serve until the election is held.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Bets are going down the Rats are going to change the law real quick and then name Miss Vicki to Ted's seat.
If there’s any kind of GOP in Massachusetts, they’d immediately challenge any kind of law change in court.
Patrick has a huge connection to Axelrod. The fix is in.
And when are the rest of us going to simply say that we refuse to count anything coming out of the corrupt, venal, and completely idiotic state of Massachusetts?
Why don’t they simply declare a king and become an independent entity?
Let the b**tards freeze to death in the dark.
The GOP in MA is extremely disappointing. They have so little power, they don’t even make much of an effort.
Act of Settlement 2009 Kingdom of Massachusetts
The MA courts are packed with Democratically appointed cronies.
It’s a lost cause.
Senator Kennedy’s final wishes on this matter should mean exactly squat.
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
I honestly can’t see how this can hold up in court since he is dead already, the existing process should be allowed to play out, at the very least they should be able to fight it for five months.
Kennedy is still dead.
His wishes count for nothing.
Whatever request came from his office, could not have come from him. He was been a state where he had been unable to make any directives or sign any documents for approximately six weeks before actual death. Maybe longer.
When it comes to rats holding power laws mean nothing. The election of Frank Lautenburg teaches us that. It's time to take our country back.
In this case, "we" will be the Congress of the United States, which is currently enjoying all the benefits of one party governance (aka tyranny)
Brought to you by the enlightened wisdom of the American voter. /s
Rather than blame Romney for everything, how about look at the facts & who exactly controls judicial nominations in Mass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Governor’s_Council
What a deal!
FRIGGIN TRAITORS!
ROTFL
We had a Govenour..ah...Mitt....Romney, and he had the power to nominate judges....but it was too ‘earthy’ for him, so he turned over his privileges to a committee and they appointed mostly (get this) Democrats.
The MA supreme court is headed up by Maggie Marshall who has done more damage than the legislature - if that’s possible. She wasn’t even born in this country yet she thinks she owns it.
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it.” - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL
For the Dems it's just Law De Jour. That's the ticket. No pun intended. LOL. And don't forget that the Dems "don't need no stink'n court". That's for Republicans and maybe the CIA.
I had a brother-in-law who had brain cancer and I can say without a doubt, there is no way in h*ll Kennedy in this late stage of brain cancer put a letter together. He would not have been able to put two words together.
Remember Barack Hussien Obama was close by.
The law should be challenged in federal court, since it affects a federal office. As I recall from the 2000 election, there is a federal law that prohibits changing the rules of an election after the election cycle has started. You could argue that this changes the rules by providing the appointee with an unfair advantage (incumbency and name recognition). Even is you didn't win the case, you could tie it up in court until after the election was held, rendering it moot.
Sounds like a reasonable plan. But it assumes a reasonable semblance of a Republican Party in MA to file the challenge.
Art. IX. All judicial officers, the attorney-general, the solicitor-general, all sheriffs, coroners, and registers of probate, shall be nominated and appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council; and every such nomination shall be made by the governor, and made at least seven days prior to such appointment.
Mitt didn’t lift a finger, and couldn’t care less about lifting up Republicans to judge ships, nor in very easily converting the backwater governors council.
His fault. Lazy. Weak. Pathetic under the backboards liberal limpwrist political basketball in a state where politics is a contact sport. ( naturally, he’d do better as President. Right? haaahhaahhahaha! )
The Governor is ultimately responsible.
Furthermore, the decisions were by Romney, none other than Mr. Scumbag Carpetbagger Willard,
none other than the attacker of Gov. Palin during Election2008.
You apparently helped Romney, right?
versus
No matter what you say in support of Romney it will fall on deaf ears. Folks around here want to hate Romney. They have no understanding of politics in Massachusetts. All they know is they detest Romney and want to blame everything on him - even if there is no basis in fact, even if it gives us Obama for a second term.
Exactly, this ain’t North Korea.
bttt
>>>>> The MA courts are packed with Democratically appointed cronies. It’s a lost cause. <<<<<<<<
The only solution for a conservative living in Massachusetts is to leave Massachusetts, which I did a long time ago after 10+ years there.
Romney certainly has some responsibility for Obama's first term.
How is it working out for you?
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
Is there denying Romney is a big government statist?
I think Patrick, along with the State and national Dem leadership, will come up with clever language that “allows” Massuchusetts to fast forward special elections under “certain” conditions. Patrick doesn’t want to be seen as a rubber stamp for the Kennedy family, and neither do many Dems in the State House, but they all agree that the seat needs to be filled as quickly as possible and only with a Dem. This way Patrick can claim the law wasn’t changed and that the system works.
Now just a minute, The pope read what Kennedy's last wishes were, and it says nothing about the governor committing one last act of corrupt democrat power grabbing on his behalf, especially since he's the one who wanted that power removed from the governor in the first place.
Some prominent MA Democrats come to mind - the gay, black, female Mayor of Cambridge. Or Skip Gates.
BTW, why were there so few black folks at the front of the Church at Ted Kennedy's Funeral. Don't the Kennedys have loads of black relatives and close friends?
Ted's family spent too much time in England
The mayor and the governor both supported Skippy and condemned the police officer.
They'd be perfect to appoint to Kennedy's seat. Or possibly Aunt Zetuni. She's back in Boston living in government subsidized housing and complaining her place is too small. She's not a citizen, you say. No problem. She's on the dole, what's more American than that.
It's remotely possible MA Republicans could challenge any appointment on the grounds that since Kennedy is dead, the seat is vacant & the existing law (requiring an election) is, de facto, in effect.
Kennedy did have the option of retiring, which (I believe) would have allowed an interim appointment...
The state party (official apparatus) has been RINO for years. There are a few Republican individuals in the legislature who are pretty good.
I lived in Western MA for a few years, myself. Oddly, there are quite a few Republicans in local government up in the hills.
Hill people don’t trust Liberals all that much...think they’re “nosy”
The FACT is Romney as a matter of principal didn’t & wouldn’t pardon anyone. Name one person he pardoned, you can’t because he didn’t.
Even if Romney weren’t a Mormon (—> unelectable by evangelicals and liberal anti-theists), his record makes him highly suspect.
Even people here are laughing about this law change (again). The democrat party exists for the party itself and not the people in this state so they may try to change the law back.
Ted Kennedy did no write that letter either someone on his staff who wanted to keep their job wrote it.
“Don’t the black people of MA deserve to have someone in the US Senate?”
They had one once in the 1960s, Edward Brooke, a Republican, ok another RINO.
Carried to its conclusion, that permanently cedes territory to the statists. OTOH, perhaps what is needed is a surge of "troops" to re-occupy the 'rat occupation. Then there are programs like 40b - the 'rats "get it", and know that leads them to the former solution.
Oh I know Jane, I never said Romney is perfect but one has to look at the facts and I can be sure of one thing he wouldn’t call this vet a bot to my face.
Kennedy's REAL last wishes (probably what direction he would like to proceed) were read at the pearly gates. And, I'd imagine they were denied.
rofl, you’re right! Auntie has a an even better “personal story” that Sotomayor. I nominate her for the next USSC vacancy. Why waste her on some stupid Senatorial seat?
I just hope they catch Patrick stuffing money in his bra!
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