"Don't let them have a special election after I am gone. We'll lose the seat..."
Posted on 08/20/2009 3:45:12 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Back in 2004 John Kerry, the Junior Senator from Massachusetts, was the Presidential candidate for the Democratic party. If he were to be elected, Massachusetts law dictates that the governor would appoint someone to fill out the rest of Kerry's term. Back then the Governor was a Republican, Mitt Romney, who would have certainly filled the seat with a Republican. Senator Ted Kennedy did not want that to happen so he urged the state legislature to change the law.
The new law leaves the seat vacant empty until a special election is held. But Senator Kennedy, who is losing his battle with brain cancer thinks the state needs two senators in Washington during that period, so he’s asking that the Legislature to change the rules again, let the governor make an interim appointment to fill his post.
‘‘I am now writing to you about an issue that concerns me deeply — the continuity of representation for Massachusetts should a Senate vacancy occur,’’ he says, adding: ‘‘As I look ahead, I am convinced that enabling the governor to fill a Senate vacancy through an interim appointment followed by a special election would best serve the people of our Commonwealth and country should a vacancy occur.’’ Left unsaid is that such an interim period may well include the debate over universal health care, a cause he has championed with his heart and soul for decades.
You notice how the Senator doesn't changes the rules to care for the People of his state, he just wants to keep changing the rules to help his party. One last hypocrisy for the people of Massachusetts to remember him by:
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Isn’t that the guy who killed a young lady via drowning?
Hate to wish evil on anyone BUT for the good of the country I hope Teddy passes before the recess ends and the state rule for filling his seat is changed .... and especially after he makes peace with the Lord
Die, monster, die.
No, it couldn't have been him. If it had been, he would have been thrown out of the Senate and sent to prison for manslaughter, at the very least.
Must be someone else you're thinking of.
Off the top of my head, I can't remember who, though.
Suffocated in an air pocket in the back seat !
You betcha’.
No. Mary Jo did not drown, she suffocated.
Had she drown, Kennedy would have simply been a drunken womanizing, scum bag.
However, since he walked away and let her die, he is a cowardly, self serving, womanizing, drunken scumbag.
Yes indeed that was the boy....who if he had been in Texas would have been sentenced to life in prison. He is a killer scumbag. Pure and simple.
Mary Jo Kopeckne’s health care will not be affected by the new bill.
She looked ahead and gave herself for the cause. /s
If Mass. abides by Kennedy’s wishes, then the state should be given back to Great Britain.
For anyone that lives in MA, do the Republicans actually have a chance of picking up this seat in a special election?
Chris Dodd and Teddy Kennedy have created new interest in researching the carcinogenic properties of the “Waitress Sandwich”.
The man is walking scum...I for one will shed no tears when he passes....
Alternatively, a Joey Buttafuoco background would serve as well.
Right, and the diver who found her in that location in the car also said there were finger scratch marks on the headliner ceiling near where her head was angled. Great leadership skills, Ted— the chicken drunk. Some of the court documents are still sealed.
I want him to linger. Unable to attend to the senate, conscious enough to understand he's still alive. He really doesn't deserve much better.
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