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Kennedy request for interim replacement met with skepticism (Screwing Us frm His Death Bed)
Worcester News and Telegram (Boston) ^

Posted on 08/20/2009 2:41:17 PM PDT by jessduntno

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's request to allow the governor to appoint an interim replacement until a special election is held if his seat is vacated, ran into initial skepticism from Beacon Hill Republicans today, but few are ruling out a change to accommodate the ailing senator's proposal.

Mr. Kennedy, suffering from terminal brain cancer, has been absent from the Senate for several months and was unable to attend his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral last week. The senator made the proposal in a letter to Gov. Deval L. Patrick, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray that was written July 2 and delivered yesterday.

The governor and the legislative leaders gave no indication whether they would support the change in coordinated statements they issued today, but it is unlikely such a request would not be given serious consideration by those Democratic leaders.

U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, said he “strongly supports” the proposed change in state election laws and urged the governor to back the proposal.

“As we continue to have a national conversation on historic issues like health care reform, Ted Kennedy believes that Massachusetts should continue to have two votes in the United States Senate in the event of a vacancy,” Mr. Neal said in a statement today.

It was unclear when such a bill might be considered, as the Legislature has not been holding formal sessions this month and it is undetermined, when they may resume formal sessions.

GOP lawmakers however, criticized the proposal, especially in light of a change in the state election laws approved by Democrats in 2004 to block a potential gubernatorial appointment by Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, in the event Sen. John F. Kerry won the 2004 presidential election.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegram.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; tedkennedy
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"Given that universal health care has been a signature issue for Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Green said state leaders have a “solemn responsibility to ensure his legacy is not lost because of a vacancy.”

Screw this fat-headed bstrd...I thought I was going to be able to enjoy watching him go through a slow miserable death...the People's Republic Of MassaTwoshits will throw over their own constitution for this killer...

1 posted on 08/20/2009 2:41:18 PM PDT by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno

A bigger man would just retire.


2 posted on 08/20/2009 2:42:55 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
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To: jessduntno

Here in Massachusetts, the Democrats practice situational legislation. Never mind the merits of the laws in question!


3 posted on 08/20/2009 2:43:27 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Sybeck1

Well, Kennedy is a bigger man. Just not in the iconic sense.


4 posted on 08/20/2009 2:44:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: jessduntno

Does he not have the option of just resigning his seat so it will be a legitimate vacancy?


5 posted on 08/20/2009 2:44:40 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: jessduntno

Most states allow the governor to appoint an interim replacement. Five years ago, Massachusetts did, too. But, when John Kerry ran for President, they changed the law to require a special election because they were worried that Republican Governor Mitt Romney would appoint a Republican. Now the situation is different, so they want to change it back. Are we a nation of laws?


6 posted on 08/20/2009 2:44:57 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: jessduntno

somebody in the kopechne family should step forward and run for the u.s. senate.


7 posted on 08/20/2009 2:45:44 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: jessduntno

What better place for a turd to be flushed than the toilet known as Massachusetts.


8 posted on 08/20/2009 2:46:14 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sybeck1

“A bigger man would just retire.”

Or a smaller man...or any man...or a woman...there is no human there, so we get to watch him plead his pathetic case...makes me sick...


9 posted on 08/20/2009 2:46:59 PM PDT by jessduntno (Privatization + Inter-State Sales + Individual Policies + Tort Reform = Healthcare Reform)
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To: jessduntno
"Ted Kennedy believes that Massachusetts should continue to have two DEMOCRAT votes in the United States Senate in the event of a vacancy,”

Fixed it.
10 posted on 08/20/2009 2:48:20 PM PDT by runfree
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Your Question: " Are we a nation of laws.

Response: Yes. But now we are learning that it also depends upon WHO is passing those "laws."

11 posted on 08/20/2009 2:48:35 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Are we a nation of laws

We are DEVO.

12 posted on 08/20/2009 2:49:00 PM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: jessduntno

I wonder if after he dies Vicky will cremate him and toss his asshes off the bridge in Chappaquidick?


13 posted on 08/20/2009 2:50:47 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: jessduntno

There is a bridge waiting for this a-hole, and I hope he finds it soon.


14 posted on 08/20/2009 2:51:10 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: jessduntno

I, for the first time in my life, hope that the story of an actual Devil and Hell are real. If so, this evil bastard is soon to smell his first whiff of brimstone.


15 posted on 08/20/2009 2:52:28 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

NOT FOR DEMOCRACTS !!!


16 posted on 08/20/2009 2:55:30 PM PDT by Froggie
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To: ExpatGator

Here I was hoping he would drown in his own bile...


17 posted on 08/20/2009 2:55:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jessduntno
Classic example of being hoist with his own petard!

LOL!

18 posted on 08/20/2009 2:57:25 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

And by Jean Francois Kerry...


19 posted on 08/20/2009 2:58:08 PM PDT by jessduntno (Privatization + Inter-State Sales + Individual Policies + Tort Reform = Healthcare Reform)
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To: NEMDF

I imagine Obamacare would have written him off except for palliative care.


20 posted on 08/20/2009 3:00:43 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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