Posted on 09/24/2009 11:14:40 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The Massachusetts Republican Party has filed an injunction in a Boston court seeking to block former Democratic Party chairman Paul Kirk from becoming the interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Lawmakers this week passed legislation giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim replacement, but laws approved in Massachusetts usually take 90 days to go into effect. Patrick signed an emergency letter that he says allows the law to become effective immediately.
Republicans allege in their court filing that Patrick did not have the constitutional authority to do that.
But State Secretary William Galvin said today the power to make the immediate appointment is "very clearly available" to Patrick.
Kirk, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, is set to be sworn Friday.
I wish them well, but I don’t see it happening. All conservatives can do is try to help Scott Brown as quietly as possible (given the state’s toxic political culture).
Amen on all counts!
Doesn’t the retirement package for a Senator essentially include his full salary plus platimum-plated benefits FOR LIFE???
How much would his combined (salary plus retirement) cost the taxpayers per month, if this guy only serves a total of four months?
It seems like an ex-post facto law to change this AFTER the death of Teddy. They should have passed it before the vacancy occurred. An injunction based on that fact seems very fair.
They lean to the left like Hell is hot.
But he won DC. ;-)
But they wouldn’t allow a REPUBLICAN governor pick a temporary senator. Hypocrits.
The prohibition on ex post facto laws only applies to criminal cases, not civil cases. It’s the same reason why we could have retroactive immunity for telecoms put into FISA.
Here’s Calder v. Bull (1798): http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=3&page=386
and why ND?...insanity....those people can not possibly be in favor of what is going on in this country...
third parties only destroy the conservatives....and the Pubs...or both...
Minn...Minn...Minn...remember Minn and the freakazoid getting "selected" because over 400,000 people wanted the third party guy and wanted to make a statement...
the rats love you "make a statement" people....just love ya...
Great timing. On the ball. Way ahead of the game.
Biden swears in Kirk, successor to Sen. Kennedy
yahoo/apobama | 9-25-09 | Andrew Miga
Posted on 09/25/2009 1:57:06 PM PDT by STARWISE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2348395/posts
Is there a “MA GOP”? Didn’t Romney leave it in as bad a shape as GWB did the national apparatus?
Many ND people are socialist-inclined, going back to the days of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers’ Non-Partisan League activities. People in ND think government is solve problems if given the right commitment and funding. The churches there are liberal too.
And when that kind of split benefited the GOP, we got Rick Perry for another cycle. Won’t happen in 2010, as people in TX are outraged with Perry’s alleged inaction. I am beginning to think Hutchison will take the nomination. Half of the twenty Republican U.S. representatives from TX back Hutchison. People in TX think Hutchison can “do things”, rightly or wrongly.
The late Earl K. Long of Louisiana, political animal to the core, understood in particular how “wasted” votes in a primary can be finagled to benefit him. The people of LA never figured it out.
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