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Perhaps it’s time to consider moving state government west
lowell sun ^ | 1/3 | peter lucas

Posted on 01/03/2020 5:57:21 AM PST by luke1825

Gov. Charlie Baker in 2020 ought to move the capital from Boston to Pittsfield.

It is one way he can help deal with the growing traffic congestion crisis and help save the environment. Traffic is strangling Boston and poisoning the air Baker should take his Statehouse staff, the Legislature and the state government with him, turn the historic Statehouse into a museum and make Beacon Hill a car- free zone.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charliebaker; commonwealthofmass
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To: luke1825

Move “west” to western Massachusetts? Lol


21 posted on 01/03/2020 7:20:12 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: luke1825

move all demonrats to venezuela so they can prove to the communists ruining that place what they’re doing wrong...


22 posted on 01/03/2020 7:23:45 AM PST by heavy metal (relax everyone those aren't earthquakes, just the reverberations of three years of stompy feet)
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To: heavy metal

I think the ENTIRE federal government needs to be broken up and relocated to different states across the nation, if these bastard bureaucrats don’t want to move TOUGH bye, bye!!! It is one way to shrink the BEAST!!!


23 posted on 01/03/2020 7:26:50 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: heavy metal

Isn’t there a large empty prison where all the politicians could be kept?


24 posted on 01/03/2020 7:28:18 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: excalibur21

Lobbyist’s jobs would become much more difficult if the politicians/statesmen/bureaucrats are decentralized.


25 posted on 01/03/2020 7:34:04 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Re: Revolution 2.0 / CWII - the side that owns the air wins)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

spreading them throughout the nation would be like someone with the flu walking around walmart coughing and sneezing...
it’ll spread the wealth...


26 posted on 01/03/2020 7:36:27 AM PST by heavy metal (relax everyone those aren't earthquakes, just the reverberations of three years of stompy feet)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I moved (escaped) from there back in 2012 down to Georgia. Even though I was born, raised and lived most of my adult life there, I felt that in the later years like I was living behind enemy lines.
Its a corrupt state and has the distinction of virtually every Speaker of the House having been eventually convicted of criminal activity.


27 posted on 01/03/2020 7:40:46 AM PST by SubVet72
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To: oldasrocks

we would have to continue to support them financially if we went that route...


28 posted on 01/03/2020 8:01:13 AM PST by heavy metal (relax everyone those aren't earthquakes, just the reverberations of three years of stompy feet)
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To: heavy metal

Pittsfield got kudos for a retirement destination recently.


29 posted on 01/03/2020 8:05:32 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It used to be in Sitka before Juneau, and Sitka is on an island. They have voted to move the capital to the area north of Anchorage (Matanuska-Susitna Borough), but when the voters were told (AFTER they approved it) what the costs would be (billions of dollars, and that was decades ago), they decided to keep it in Juneau for the time being.


30 posted on 01/03/2020 3:13:04 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: vpintheak

Post #30.


31 posted on 01/03/2020 3:15:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: thanatz

LOL! You keep your leftists!


32 posted on 01/03/2020 8:47:33 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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