Posted on 07/28/2009 8:18:46 AM PDT by GQuagmire
Republican Charles Baker says Gov. Deval Patrick and Beacon Hill Democrats have "turned a crisis into a calamity" and made the Massachusetts economy "a wreck" with excessive government spending and an unwise tax increase.
In a video to supporters unveiled today, the former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care president says he has twice engineered economic turnarounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I don’t know much about Baker, but this is what happens when Dems have control of all three levels of government (House, Senate and Executive)
NJ is the same boat. Dims have control of everything and the economy is in shambles! There’s always plenty of money for teacher bennies and union payoffs though.
Little wonder that people are leaving the Bay State in large numbers.
Electing Baker, even if he were a Conservative Republican (he’s not), would be pointless. Until the MA GOP is resurrected from its current deceased state (thanks, Slick Willard), no “GOP” Governor will be anything more than a figurehead until they get to at least 1/4th to 1/3rd of the legislature to sustain a veto. Baker would only be good to show up at the openings of gas stations and supermarkets and the Dems to use him as a scapegoat for the state’s problems, despite his having NO power to do anything. Right now, it’s 90% Democrat in the legislature, and the 10% is non-Conservative Socialist RINO, indistinguishable from the Democrats (and in some cases, to the Dems LEFT).
Massachusetts today, America tomorrow.
unless Baker has coattails (or more to the point Deval has reverse coattails) and brings a good chunk of decent conservative Rs to the state house with him. Not likely i know but possible. When Romney was popular in MA he did help flip a State Senate seat during a special election. what really killed any hope in 04 was Kerry being on the ballot which destroyed any minor gains Rs had made (and they were VERY minor at that). MA is a disaster hopefully Deval will be the tonic the Rs need to at least show some competitiveness in regions of MA again
I lived in Massachusetts before Romney was ever Governor there. The GOP was dead then too.
The MA GOP has a chairwoman to the left of most Democrats nationwide. To say she is a bad joke is an insult to bad jokes. We didn’t even contest but a fraction of the seats in the House in ‘08:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=756
The Senate scarcely different:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=757
What’s left of the “on paper” so-called leadership needs to be removed completely in the state so they can start over from scratch. But we can’t even GET Conservative Republicans to run because the RINO bitch in charge isn’t interested in anyone but far-left moonbats. Ask FReeper Bob Parks about his experience with running for the MA House and the “support” he received.
It was on life support until January 2007, it’s dead now.
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The thing that ruined MA is the crushing debt from the Big Dig. Now, I think in theory the Big Dig was cool, ambitious engineering project, and it certainly in some respects improved the city of Boston by sinking the crumbling expressway and healing the scar in the city, but the oversight and implementation of the project was so corrupt and incompetent that the result was an inexcusable fiscal disaster.
It will take a generation to recover from the boondoggle. The least they could do is open up the greenway to developers to bring some economic benefit to the project. Having just parkland there is such a waste.
Here's Polly, the Mass GOP parrot mascot. It does have lovely plumage, doesn't it ?
‘Cept everybody else in the rest of the country got to pay for the Big Dig... at least I got to go to Boston to see it in progress. Pity the folks in Emporia, Kansas paying for that sumbitch, and they’ll never get to see it.
When was that last the case?
That’s true, but those things go round and round. MA, in general, pays out more in federal taxes than it receives. I’m sure there are projects in Kansas City and Phoenix and wherever that have received federal dollars that MA residents will never benefit from.
That doesn’t excuse the disastrous implementation of the plan, but if those fed dollars are up for grabs anyway, I’m in favor of the money going to ambitious projects like TBD.
I’m well past the point that the feds need to put a halt to this spending insanity. That thing went so far beyond budget, it only demonstrated the iron rule that went the gov’t gets involved, costs go up and quality goes down. We need a return to fiscal sanity and Constitutional government.
one of the main reasons i left MA in the first place was the anemic GOP. I had no idea about this woman thanks for the info
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