Bets are going down the Rats are going to change the law real quick and then name Miss Vicki to Ted's seat.
Posted on 08/31/2009 9:32:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to make an announcement this afternoon about special election to fill the US Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Patrick is scheduled to make the announcement in the press briefing room at the State House, according to his staff. No details were released about the substance of the announcement.
[Snip]
It is an election that has considerable national implications, as Democrats try to maintain a 60-seat majority in the Senate.
State lawmakers are also still trying to weigh one of Kennedy's final wishes: He wanted the governor to have the authority to appoint an interim senator, who would serve until the election is held.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Bets are going down the Rats are going to change the law real quick and then name Miss Vicki to Ted's seat.
If there’s any kind of GOP in Massachusetts, they’d immediately challenge any kind of law change in court.
Patrick has a huge connection to Axelrod. The fix is in.
And when are the rest of us going to simply say that we refuse to count anything coming out of the corrupt, venal, and completely idiotic state of Massachusetts?
Why don’t they simply declare a king and become an independent entity?
Let the b**tards freeze to death in the dark.
The GOP in MA is extremely disappointing. They have so little power, they don’t even make much of an effort.
Act of Settlement 2009 Kingdom of Massachusetts
The MA courts are packed with Democratically appointed cronies.
It’s a lost cause.
Senator Kennedy’s final wishes on this matter should mean exactly squat.
"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
“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
I honestly can’t see how this can hold up in court since he is dead already, the existing process should be allowed to play out, at the very least they should be able to fight it for five months.
Kennedy is still dead.
His wishes count for nothing.
Whatever request came from his office, could not have come from him. He was been a state where he had been unable to make any directives or sign any documents for approximately six weeks before actual death. Maybe longer.
When it comes to rats holding power laws mean nothing. The election of Frank Lautenburg teaches us that. It's time to take our country back.
In this case, "we" will be the Congress of the United States, which is currently enjoying all the benefits of one party governance (aka tyranny)
Brought to you by the enlightened wisdom of the American voter. /s
Rather than blame Romney for everything, how about look at the facts & who exactly controls judicial nominations in Mass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Governor’s_Council
What a deal!
FRIGGIN TRAITORS!
ROTFL
We had a Govenour..ah...Mitt....Romney, and he had the power to nominate judges....but it was too ‘earthy’ for him, so he turned over his privileges to a committee and they appointed mostly (get this) Democrats.
The MA supreme court is headed up by Maggie Marshall who has done more damage than the legislature - if that’s possible. She wasn’t even born in this country yet she thinks she owns it.
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it.” - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL
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