Posted on 11/13/2014 7:53:26 AM PST by rktman
Earlier this week, I wrote about the nanny-state government in the town of Westminster, MA, considering a town-wide ban on the sale of tobacco products. A meeting was planned for Wednesday night to hear public comment on the proposed ban.
So, how did the meeting go?
CBS news describes, “Only a handful of people were able to speak on a proposal that could make the tiny Massachusetts town of Westminster the first in the nation to ban all sales of tobacco products before boos and shouts from the crowd shut down the public hearing Wednesday night.”
According to the CBS report, 60 people were registered to share their opinions and “several hundred” held signs opposing the ban. The Boston Globe reported the audience at 500 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
A lot of that is gerrymandering. Look at the blue/red county map. MA is about 60-40 lib to conservative. Small number of registered Republicans, but huge number of registered "unenrolleds," about 40%.
Also, the communities with concentrated moonbat populations are very outspoken and headline-grabby.
About a dozen judges quit in Virginia or something
I would submit that is a cowardly act and makes them complicit in the judicial power grab that is ruining the Republic. They are duly elected and sworn to uphold their states' laws.
Resigning is a tacit agreement that their authority is defined by their federal overloads.
And I understand the practicalities. It's going to take some real suffering to turn this thing back. Everybody seems to be waiting on someone else.
Not only that, but it gives the leftist scum a better chance to appoint like-minded leftist scum to the bench in their stead.
Westminster is a red town. There are a lot of red towns in Massachusetts. However, the cities are blue. The votes are in the cities.
follow the money.
this is really about how much tobacco money goes back to the city.
Sorry, I meant what district in MA
Frank was a Representative from Massachusetts’s 4th District.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/20/us/boston-journal-cleanup-comes-to-the-combat-zone.html
“But, that’s avoidance. What is required is RESISTANCE.”
It is going to take a governor, backed by the legislature of a state, and hopefully a majority of its congressional delegation, to flat refuse an order by a federal bureaucrat or federal judge. Jan Brewer of Arizona was showing some resistance and backbone for a while but someone apparently got to her as she has been quiet for some time. Rick Perry occasionally shows some backbone, but he seems to be held in check from an outright confrontation by his presidential aspirations.
Now that Kay Hagan has been defeated it is possible that Obama and his new Attorney General will institute a fight with the state of NC over voter ID. Leftist agitators have been in the state since the election of Republican Governor McCrory and a Republican legislature. Every Monday they hold rallies and marches, primarily in the capital city of Raleigh but occasionally in other cities around the state. The “Moral Monday” marches have included occupation of government offices and once included an occupation of Senator elect Tom Tillis’s office at the state Capitol. The leftist mainstream media in the state has given these demonstrations plenty of publicity.
Every Alinksy tactic has been used against the new voter ID law which is schedule to go into effect for the 2016 election. It is possible a federal judge or the Justice Department will declare it a violation of the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act. If this happens perhaps Governor McCrory and the state legislature will declare this a 10th Amendment issue and refuse to accept the ruling of a federal court or the DOJ.
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