Posted on 08/20/2009 2:24:37 AM PDT by prisoner6
BOSTON (AP) — A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
The note to Gov. Deval Patrick and the state's Senate president and House speaker acknowledges the state changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election to fill any vacancy. At the time, legislative Democrats were concerned Republican Gov. Mitt Romney would be able to fill any vacancy created as Sen. John Kerry ran for president.
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prisoner6
Gotta ensure another droolingly stupid lib replaces this droolingly stupid lib, right?
He wants his wife to replace him. If he wants to speed up the process, he could resign now.
Yep, dejaTorricelli all over again. Just keep changing the rules and making stuff up as needed as you go along to suit yourselves.
Here’s hoping the SOB lives long enough to see Deathcare crash and burn .
Don’t like the law?
Write a poignant letter....
Screw you Ted, ES&D.
It would be rather humorous
to find the Dims a vote short
cause Teddy was holding on to power too long.
Serve them right the bastages.
Umm... I just woke up but, Ted isnt in Congress. He is in the Senate
So: It’s Vital that the people of Mass have Two voices in the Senate, to Speak FOR them, but he wants State Law changed, to CHEAT THEM OUT OF deciding through AN ELECTION, Who does the speaking/deciding For them.
Democracy: Democrat Style.
ABC news reported that Ted wasn’t at his sisters funeral last week. You know Robert Byrd wasn’t there either.
Amazing... they make a special law to prevent a Republican governor from appointing a senator, and now that they have a senator they want to replace it’s all “Oh nevermind what we said before, let’s do it the old way this time.”
When it comes to bald-faced audacity, you can never beat a lib.
Senate is part of Congress. Congress has two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. I think I got that right.
BTW who becomes President Pro Tempore when KKK Byrd shuffles off this mortal coil?
He's in Congress as Congress has two houses. The House of Representatives and the Senate.
The current President pro tempore of the Senate is Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia).[2] By custom, the next Senators in line likely to be elected President pro tempore are Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.
Thanks.
I need coffee
He has been living on stolen time for 40 years.
Yep, we need two laws on this topic. One to neuter Republicans, one to give democrats unlimited power.
We would have simplified, and written one law to cover everything, no matter which party had the power, but we couldn’t figure out how to write that.
So, we have two separate laws. We amend the law at will, depending on which party has power.
The next longest serving Democrat will replace Byrd when that happens.
Gotta look up who it is.
Nah what makes it confusing is the Reps are called congressmen and the senators are usually called senators.
You did.
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