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The last time there was a vacancy in Massachusetts, when Ted the Swimmer died, the Democrats changed the rules so that the Republican governor could not pick the temporary replacement.

24 posted on 06/13/2016 10:44:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus

To: Verginius Rufus

25 posted on 06/13/2016 10:48:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)

To: Verginius Rufus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Kirk#U.S._Senate

> In August 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy died, leaving a vacancy in the Massachusetts Senate delegation. Five years earlier in 2004, the Massachusetts General Court had withdrawn the authority of the governor to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy by appointment, to prevent the then-Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, from appointing a fellow Republican to fill the remainder of Democrat John Kerry’s Senate term, if Kerry were to win the 2004 presidential election. The legislation was enacted over Romney’s veto.

The woman-killing drunken whale wanted *that* altered (maybe temporarily) to permit racist Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary (Demwit) replacement during Obamacare furore on the Hill, then move on to the special election.

28 posted on 06/13/2016 10:52:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)

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