Posted on 09/26/2009 3:27:24 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Teddymandering is the practice of changing a law to benefit your political party, then reversing the change when your political party will benefit from the original rules to which you objected.
Named for former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy. Senator Kennedy influenced the Massachusetts state legislature to change the Senatorial succession law during the 2004 election. His reasons were strictly because Senator John Kerry, if elected President, would be replaced by an appointee of (then) Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican. At the time, Kennedy was against any interim appointment until a special election could be held.
In 2009, as he neared death from brain cancer, Kennedy asked the state legislature to revise the law so that the governor could make an interim appointment. The governor of Massachusetts in 2009 was (is) Deval Patrick, a Democrat.
It is not going to make a hill of beans difference as soon as Obama gets to appoint every position in the government.
God. Sometimes I do just hate this state and every politician in it.
The link on the page about half way down brings you back here to a post titled “Bill on Kennedy Seat Advances”
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2345780/posts
How appropriate coming from the state that gave us Gerrymandering
Kudos, Lib ... your post is being cited in the Wikipedia entry now as reason to nuke the entry. Of course, they took out FreeRepublic and replaced it with the IP address: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2345780/posts
A screenshot! Most excellent!
Take that, wikipedia progressives!
:-)
Great stuff. I saved a copy for when they delete it probably no later than Monday, 28 September 2009
Hopefully someday Massachusetts will be known for something other than arrogant, corrupt liberals !
These are my written words from Urban Dictionary written in 2009. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teddymandering. I didn’t invent the word, but I wrote the definition on Urban Dictionary and gave an example. I’m now doubly surprised that it’s made Wikipedia. This is precisely what Kristin Sinema is trying to do now that the Democrats are about to lose power in both Houses.
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