Posted on 08/31/2009 1:11:04 PM PDT by Panzerlied
UPDATE: Governor Deval Patrick announced today that a special election will be held on Jan. 19 to fill the seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
A state legislative committee will hold a hearing next week on a bill to allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary replacement for Senator Edward M. Kennedy while a special election is held to fill his seat, a signal that Beacon Hill is moving to accommodate Kennedy's request that Massachusetts maintain two voices in the Senate.
The House and Senate chairmen of the Joint Committee on Election Laws announced today they have moved the hearing date from early October to Sept. 9. The House and Senate, which are in summer recess, do not return in full formal session until next week. The bill could come to the floor of both the House and Senate within days after the hearing.
''One of the senator's last public acts was a request that the Legislature explore ways to amend state law so the Commonwealth will not lose a voice in the United States Senate pending the filling of the seat with a special election,'' said state Senator Thomas P. Kennedy, a Brockton Democrat, the Senate chairman of election laws committee. (He is not related to Edward Kennedy.)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Doesn’t the answer already exist in the law?
He is now! Get that fella in the game!
They should nominate Rush. :-)
They should nominate Rush. :-)
I think the CORRUPTION billboards need to start going up all over the Commonwealth.
Rule of law? what rule of law? We don’t need no steeenkeen rule of law!!!!
"If your name was Theodore Moore instead of Theodore Moore Kennedy you wouldn't even be here.
Sept 9...Beacon Hill....sounds like a good place for a tea party...
OMG - you read my mind.
Hypocrits!
I think I’m going to hurl.....
Disgusting!
.
According to WRKO, any bill from the Legislature would prevent an interim senator from being appointed for 90 days. IOW, no 60th vote for DeathCare this year.
Law is an inconvenience when you’re a Dem. You just make it up as you go along.
I know- let’s do what Kennedy wanted!
Just 5 years ago he passed some law about that, preventing the governor from appointing someone (if Kerry was elected0, didn’t he?
This is why HYPOCRITES reside on one of the lowest rings in hell
IF they move too quickly, it would be fun to see the GOP in the senate throw a hold on acceptance, pending a legal review of the change in the law. “Just to be sure”.
They should be able to complete the review and lift the hold by Christmas, or maybe early January.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.