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CLT UPDATE
Friday, November 9, 2012
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House Republicans on Tuesday relinquished some
gains they made during the 2010 elections, adding to a miserable
showing across Massachusetts where the GOP were swept in
Congressional races, lost the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown,
and saw former Gov. Mitt Romney edged aside by President Barack
Obama.
The scorecard for Republicans was so bad
Wednesday that it appeared the pickup of an open House seat by West
Newbury’s Leonard Mirra represented the party’s biggest victory of
the night. While a few Republicans in the House and Senate defeated
challengers, three House GOP members were defeated by newcomers and
Republicans failed to beat a single incumbent Democrat in House and
Senate races.
The blue rout underscored a big problem for
down-ballot Republicans in Massachusetts – a heavy turnout among
Democrats in presidential elections every four years makes it even
tougher for the GOP to win here.
Senate Democrats will keep their 36-4 numerical
advantage over Republicans in the 2013-2014 session and House
Republicans will enter the session with 29 members, rather than the
current 33....
State House News Service
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Democrats trim House GOP ranks, adding to burn of 2012 elections
It was a tragic night for the commonwealth,
for taxpayers, for people who believe in the checks and balance
of government, and for the GOP.
Voters sent a message that they like
one-party rule and all the scandals that party brings to the
table. They like a Legislature completely owned by the SEIU and
the Massachusetts Teachers Association. They endorse the culture
that has led to three House speakers being convicted of felonies
and three state senators going to jail. And they want tax
increases and higher unemployment. With the defeat of several
incumbent House Republicans, it is just a matter of how much our
taxes will be increased....
When Lizzy Warren, Joe Kennedy and Beacon
Hill raise your taxes next year, if you voted Democratic
yesterday, you have only yourself to blame.
The Boston Herald
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Voters disgraced themselves, state
By Holly Robichaud
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Chip Ford's CLT
Commentary
Question 2 — "Prescribing
Medication to End Life" — was, in
retrospect, fortunately defeated (I voted for it; it's my
life) on Tuesday, or many of us might have availed ourselves of it
Wednesday morning.
Question 3 — "Medical
Use of Marijuana" — passed by a
large margin (I voted for it; it's my health), so maybe it's
time to just see a doctor (before Obamacare kicks in) and zone-out
permanently until we die of natural causes.
Sorry if I sound so negative. I've held off a
couple of days, until having time to digest and assimilate, calm
down — sort of accept the outcome.
I've concluded: Our state and the national
republic are in serious distress.
I still haven't seen a way we dig Massachusetts
and the nation out of this, if we still can.
But if we don't find one —
nobody else it going to.
CLT's 2½ PAC was
disappointed — in this blowout
presidential election year — that taxpayers in Massachusetts lost
traction. Chip
Faulkner, the PAC's director notes that we lost
taxpayer-friendly incumbents:
Rep. Paul Adams
(R-Andover)
Rep. Richard Bastien (R-Gardner)
Rep. Steven Levy (R-Marlborough)
Rep. George Ross (R-Attleboro)
He notes that Rep. Daniel
Webster (R-Hanson) resigned from the Legislature 2 or 3 months ago.
The Republican who ran for his seat, Karen Barry, lost on Tuesday.
The PAC had endorsed Barry.
Rep. Paul Adams (R-Andover)
decided to run for state senate when his seat was redistricted into
the same district as Rep. Jim Lyons. He lost his bid against
incumbent Sen. Barry Finegold.
The one bright spot: The
open seat left by Harriet Stanley (D-West Newbury) was won by
PAC-endorsed Republican Lenny Mirra.
You can see the results of all the CLT's 2½
PAC-endorsed candidates
here.
Perhaps — as
many of us have begun to feel — trying to
save our state and our nation is becoming more futile,
if even still possible. But what are
our options?
We may be among a shrinking number who know how
things are supposed to be — can
be, perhaps, again. We may be all that stands between our
heritage and complete and irreversible disaster.
In my shock and
depression, I've given considerable thought to how the Great Experiment of 1787 might be over,
that it has perhaps run its course like all great empires. I
pondered over whether I should throw in the towel, give up the good
fight and go along with the apparent trend, get a life and join the
mind-numbed masses in blissful ignorance.
"Never give up, never give up, never, never,
never give up," Winston Churchill asserted during Great Britain's
darkest days.
I can't let the statists roll over me without
fighting back. "Over my dead body" I guess it is.
How about you?
Still got any fight left?
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State House News Service
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Democrats trim House GOP ranks, adding to burn of 2012 elections
By Michael P. Norton
House Republicans on Tuesday relinquished some gains they made
during the 2010 elections, adding to a miserable showing across
Massachusetts where the GOP were swept in Congressional races, lost
the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown, and saw former Gov. Mitt
Romney edged aside by President Barack Obama.
The scorecard for Republicans was so bad Wednesday that it appeared
the pickup of an open House seat by West Newbury’s Leonard Mirra
represented the party’s biggest victory of the night. While a few
Republicans in the House and Senate defeated challengers, three
House GOP members were defeated by newcomers and Republicans failed
to beat a single incumbent Democrat in House and Senate races.
The blue rout underscored a big problem for down-ballot Republicans
in Massachusetts – a heavy turnout among Democrats in presidential
elections every four years makes it even tougher for the GOP to win
here.
Senate Democrats will keep their 36-4 numerical advantage over
Republicans in the 2013-2014 session and House Republicans will
enter the session with 29 members, rather than the current 33. One
hundred and thirty Democrats are scheduled to be sworn in as House
members on Jan. 2, 2013. The numbers mean Gov. Deval Patrick during
his last two years in office will retain the comfort of working with
large Democratic majorities in both branches.
Senate President Therese Murray brushed aside one the most
significant Republican challenges on Tuesday, easily outpolling
Sandwich’s Tom Keyes, who had attempted to topple Murray by linking
her to a series of ethical scandals that downed other State House
politicians in the past few years.
While 27 senators ran unopposed Tuesday, Murray and nine others
easily defeated challengers, including Sen. Barry Finegold’s
dispatching of Rep. Paul Adams (R-Andover), who fell into the
electoral abyss as he tried to make the leap from one chamber to the
other.
With her win, Murray is assured of one more term as Senate president
and a potential role in handing off one of Beacon Hill’s most
powerful jobs for the 2015-2016 session, when she won’t be eligible
to remain Senate president because of legislative rules limiting the
holder of that job to eight years.
Incumbents were not on Tuesday’s ballot in only three Senate
districts and Democrats won each of them, including a right-leaning
district near the New Hampshire border.
Haverhill Republican Shaun Toohey gave Newburyport Democrat Kathleen
O’Connor Ives a scare, but O’Connor Ives prevailed in a four-person
race to keep for the Democrats the seat formerly held by Sen. Steven
Baddour of Methuen. Former Sen. Michael Barrett of Lexington will
return to Beacon Hill to fill the seat Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln)
is giving up. And the seat long held by Sen. Fred Berry, who is
retiring, went to Salem Democrat Joan Lovely who beat Beverly
Republican Shaun Toohey.
Republicans more than doubled their numbers in the House after the
2010 elections, and while a few freshman House members were knocked
off Tuesday, most of them won, including Rep. James Lyons, who beat
former Rep. Barbara L’Italien by just over 500 votes for the second
time in three years.
But any hopes the House Republicans might have harbored about moving
closer to being able to sustain a gubernatorial veto vanished as the
election results ticked in Tuesday night.
West of Boston, Marlborough Republican Steven Levy was upended by
Marlborough Democrat Danielle Gregoire in a rematch of their 2010
election. Preliminary numbers indicated 9,111 votes for Gregoire to
8,881 for Levy.
To the north, Gardner Democrat Jonathan Zlotnik took from Rep.
Richard Bastien the seat the Gardner Republican won two years ago in
a pickup for Republicans. Unofficial tallies show 8,512 votes for
Zlotnik and 8,181 for Bastien.
To the south, Attleboro Republican George Ross was felled by
Democrat Paul Heroux and Democrat Josh Cutler of Duxbury defeated
Duxbury Republican Karen Barry, flipping a seat held by Rep. Dan
Webster (R-Hanson), a five-term state representative who ended his
re-election campaign in September just days after declaring victory
in a tough primary against a late write-in challenger.
Webster has been dealing with legal issues stemming from accusations
that he mismanaged client funds at his Pembroke law firm. His law
license was suspended in 2010, and according to the Massachusetts
Board of Bar Overseers hearings on his potential disbarment are
scheduled for this week.
The election results mean a significant downsizing of a small band
of conservative Republicans who at times clashed on issues with
House Republicans led by veteran Minority Leader Brad Jones of North
Reading. Adams, Levy and Webster all will not return to the House in
January.
Orange Democrat Rep. Denise Andrews nearly lost, but outpolled
Republican Susannah Lee of Athol by less than 200 votes, according
to preliminary data.
The Boston Herald
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Voters disgraced themselves, state
By Holly Robichaud
It was a tragic night for the commonwealth, for taxpayers, for
people who believe in the checks and balance of government, and for
the GOP.
Voters sent a message that they like one-party rule and all the
scandals that party brings to the table. They like a Legislature
completely owned by the SEIU and the Massachusetts Teachers
Association. They endorse the culture that has led to three House
speakers being convicted of felonies and three state senators going
to jail. And they want tax increases and higher unemployment. With
the defeat of several incumbent House Republicans, it is just a
matter of how much our taxes will be increased.
Joe Kennedy’s victory proves that the 4th Congressional District
definitely can be bought and that voters don’t support a candidate
on merit, but rather his last name.
Bipartisanship is for other states, not Massachusetts.
They want a U.S. senator who will vote 100 percent with the
Democratic Party even when it kills the economy. They sent a loud
and clear message that a Democrat can make any claim to further
their career and there is no accountability. That’s right — do I as
I say not as I do is the motto of our elected elite.
The defeat of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is a disgrace. Unfortunately,
Massachusetts will once again be the butt of every joke. President
Obama refused to nominate our newly elected fake Indian senator to
head up her consumer agency because she could not get through the
confirmation process. Yet, voters turned a blind eye to all her
problems. Voters will come to regret this decision.
When Lizzy Warren, Joe Kennedy and Beacon Hill raise your taxes next
year, if you voted Democratic yesterday, you have only yourself to
blame.
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