Let’s get this story viral!!!
Today, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor’s Council would take a while.
“Because it’s a federal election,” spokesman Brian McNiff said. “We’d have to wait 10 days for absentee and military ballots to come in.”
Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 - well after the president’s address.
Since the U.S. Senate doesn’t meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held. But Kirk and Galvin’s office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo.
In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
NOW THE MILITARY MEMBER’S VOTES MATTER IN MA?!?!
Dirty democrat politics, but it might backfire if the military vote gives Scott Brown the win!
Since the GOP leadership have no guts and spine and can’t figure out that we are at war, then it is up to all of us to do their fighting for them. There have to be thousands of retired patriots willing to work on these battles, e.g., retired law enforcement, retired veterans, retired lawyers, retired professionals in every field. If we want to stay free and have a future for our children and grandchildren, we have got to organize now and fight these fascists that want to destroy our country.
This is how to make it go viral:
Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/private.guest.html?ck=1262988261783
Glenn Beck
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/program/contact/
Sean Hannity
http://www.hannity.com/contact
Ann Coulter
http://chat.anncoulter.com/phpBB3///
Thanks for the ping!
Remember how they got Bill Owens seated within 3 days of his contested election, before they had even filed the certification for the election. Of course, that was New York, but seating is entirely at the behest of the Senate.
The only problem is that the Republicans set the standard with the Al Franken election, where they asked that Franken not be seated until certification, including all court challenges.
So all Reid has to do is say they are applying the same standard to Brown, and the media will back them 100%, because it will sound reasonable.
Our hope then would be that at least one of the democrats who was on the fence before insists that the vote wait until the elected senator is seated.
I still doubt this will be an issue.