That would be Salvatore DiMasi next to the late Fat Teddy. Sal is the third "Mr Speaker" in a row to resign having lost a photo-finish with a grand jury. May God damn the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!
Posted on 03/22/2011 9:54:29 PM PDT by Right Wingnut 2
On multiple occasions, Mitt Romney has expressed concern about the threat of activist judges. Not knowing much about his record on judicial appointments, I decided to a little digging. I was surprised to find that out of 36 judicial appointments (2003-2005), only 9 were Republicans. In fact, he appointed more Democrats than Republicans. How do these activist judges advance through the court system? Mitt Romney certainly knows the answer to that question.
From Boston.com:
“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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at whynotromney.blogspot.com ...
In ‘08, Romney was the best we had near the end. I voted for him in the primary because I really disliked McLame for his dangerous ideas at the time. Obummer light.
I also couldn’t find the lever in the voting both for Harold Stassen. He was in every other GOP primary, I figured he be my fall back vote again.
If I may play devils advocate for a minute, can you also include what the numbers were in the Dem majority he had to deal with in Mass to get his appointments voted in?
As Beck would say... I’m just saying...
Yeah, Palin has lost me (at least for now agreeing with the Obama Doctrine) and I can’t vote for Romney. All I have to do is remember that Romney was for social health care.
I was thinking along similar lines. I’m not a Romney fan by any means, but this particular issue may reflect the political realities for a GOP governor in an ultra-blue state.
RINO alert!!!
Robomney 2012!
Mitt’s a very expensive call girl. He’ll be what you want him to be, for a price.
are the appointees process similar to the Alaska, where some committee pick from a pool of names and give them to the Governor to pick? I don’t hold Palin accountable for her judge pick, even though it appear she did pick the better judge out of two that was given to her. The other judge she didn’t pick, went to the media and whined
1907-2001. On the other hand, he would qualify for the Dems.
LOL. We just don’t have a perennial candidate anymore. The guy ran in every election from ‘48 to 2000 and never got close to winning. If we are lucky, maybe Romney can take over his position.
What about Ron Paul? Maybe not perennial, but pernicious, yes...
Now that there was some funny stuff. Hilarious.
That would be Salvatore DiMasi next to the late Fat Teddy. Sal is the third "Mr Speaker" in a row to resign having lost a photo-finish with a grand jury. May God damn the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
“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
"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
Mitt Romney may be a republican in Massachusetts but that makes him just a subspecies of democrat.
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