Posted on 05/23/2008 4:21:07 AM PDT by Impy
BOSTON — The leader of the Massachusetts House says he will support giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim successor to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy if that becomes necessary.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of that authority in 2004 because of fears he would name a Republican to replace U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he had been elected president.
Instead, state law now requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs.
But House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi said yesterday if Kennedy should step aside or have to be replaced because of his brain tumor diagnosis, he'd be in favor of a gubernatorial appointment.
"That was a good political reason (then)," DiMasi said of taking the power away from Romney. "It's a good political reason to change it back."
(Excerpt) Read more at gloucestertimes.com ...
Honest admitted party hacks need love too.
There obviously is a Death Pool going on Ted Kennedy. Sorry, no Republicans may apply. This is a closed pool, admission based on the participation to the Wellstone Memorial. Remember, they barred Vice President Cheney from attending.
This is definitely a political event, largely closed to even the sympathetic media, just so nobody inadvertently spills the beans.
At least not too soon.
That is all we have in Massachusetts Govt. Partisan Hacks.
There isn’t a statesman or woman in a Carload, we have no real government, either State or Federal.
- King John to the English nobles, before the Magna Carta
Massachusetts. AKA, Hackistan.
Wussified males... and dim-witted lesbians make for pathetic electorate.
I believe that the Founders realized that government eventually, inevitably devolves into thieving and slavery.
How ironic that "The Cradle of Liberty" was one of the first states to revert back to the ways of the Crown they rebelled against...
Drunk Fat Ted has stated that he wants his wife to have his senatorial seat.
Un-freaking-believable. The RATS don’t even see a problem with changing laws of party promotion.
Really? I hadn’t heard that.
Remember, if a Republican were to win a special election, the power in the US Senate would shift from the Democrats BACK to the Republicans.
More evidence that the Democrats actually hate this country. Extrapolate the "good politics" comments of Dem leadership and you see them justifying, in the future, tying FREEPERS to posts and, in the interest of not polluting the environment by using bullets, leaving us there.
Teddy’s wife comes from an old political family.
Didn’t her father go to prison over some political shenanigans?
Sure, watch Sal go for this, then Debag Patrick will back him up while everyone else is calling for Sal’s speaker job. Then Sal will be so happy that he’ll be in favor of casinos all of a sudden. This place is rotten.
Domeonw tell Teddy’s wife that a Senate Seat is not a Dower Right
So it WAS a Bill of Attainder against Howie. Why don’t they just outlaw the Republican Party in MA and get it over with?
Thanks, pinging Howie list
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