Massachusetts Republicans painted a bleak picture Wednesday night of a state spending billions on shelters, tax revenues in decline,residents fleeing for other parts of the country,and a lackluster education system for students. Sen. Peter Durant,a Spencer Republican, offered the stark and dark portrait of Massachusetts in response to Gov. Maura Healey’s State of the Commonwealth address, which cast the state as having a “strong” economy and made clear some of the governor’s spending goals in the fiscal year 2025 budget. But Durant invoked immigration,education, housing, efforts to fight climate change, and underperforming revenues as sore points on Beacon Hill that...