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CLT UPDATE
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Call Now — to sustain
Gov's pay grab veto!
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Baker punctuated his opposition by saying
“hundreds” of people have called his office to decry the
raise. “We expect them to hear from people the same way we
did,” he said of lawmakers.
The bill breezed through the House, 116-44, and the Senate,
31-9, with only a handful of Democrats opposing it. With the
majorities there to override the veto, House lawmakers are
expected to take it up next week, a source said, though
exactly when wasn’t clear.
Baker indicated he had no plans to try to flip votes
personally, needing 10 in the House and another five in
the Senate to ensure the bill doesn’t become law.
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Chip Ford's CLT
Commentary
No rest for the weary, but . . . “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”!
If ten House Democrat members of the 116 who voted for the pay grab (all
Republicans in both the House and Senate voted against it) switch their vote
when the Governor's veto is brought up, or just five Democrats in the Senate of
31 switch their votes, the radical pay grab will be killed.
Convincing just ten in the House and five in the Senate —
out of 200 legislators.
Though difficult, it is possible.
Making a phone call or two now is a lot less difficult than trying to accomplish
a petition drive later.
Call your friends and family members; ask them to make a couple calls too.
If your state Representative or State Senator is a Democrat, please call them
immediately and request that they vote to sustain Gov. Baker's veto.
If you called them before, call them again.
Below is a list of the few Democrat Representatives and Democrat Senators who
voted against the despicable pay grab. Call them too
— thank them for their NO vote and encourage them
to stay strong and sustain the governor's veto. (They'll be under heavy
political pressure as well, to change their votes to YES!)
House NO votes
Calter, Thomas
Connolly, Mike
DiZoglio, Diana
Dwyer, James
Garry, Colleen
Hecht, Jonathan
Heroux, Paul
Provost, Denise
Zlotnik, Jonathan
Senate NO votes
Gobi, Anne
Moore. Michael
Timilty, Walter
This shameless pay grab is on the fastest fast track anything ever has been.
Expect the governor's veto to come up and be voted on come Monday.
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Chip Ford
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The Boston Herald
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Charlie Baker touts hundreds of complaints about
pay boost
By Matt Stout
House lawmakers, backed by an overwhelming
majority, will likely move next week to override
Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of their controversial
pay-raise package, all but ensuring the pay
hikes become law despite “hundreds” of
complaints flowing into the governor’s office.
In vetoing the legislation, Baker yesterday
panned the bill — and the lightning-fast speed
that lawmakers used to pass it — as “fiscally
irresponsible” and a “hasty process.”
The Swampscott Republican, who signaled on
Wednesday he was against the raises after saying
for days he only wouldn’t accept it himself,
also said the hefty raises could add more strain
not just on the budget but the state’s pension
liability.
Baker punctuated his opposition by saying
“hundreds” of people have called his office to
decry the raise. “We expect them to hear from
people the same way we did,” he said of
lawmakers.
The bill breezed through the House, 116-44, and
the Senate, 31-9, with only a handful of
Democrats opposing it. With the majorities there
to override the veto, House lawmakers are
expected to take it up next week, a source said,
though exactly when wasn’t clear.
Baker indicated he had no plans to try to flip
votes personally, needing 10 in the House and
another five in the Senate to ensure the bill
doesn’t become law.
“I am going to start with the folks who
supported our position,” Baker said. The bill
hikes the pay of House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo
and Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg by
nearly 50 percent, to $142,500, while
guaranteeing other legislative leaders a range
of padded stipends. It also hikes Baker’s pay,
though he said he won’t take it, as well as
other constitutional officers.
Only Auditor Suzanne M. Bump has said she’ll
take the increase, which elevates her pay to
$165,000. Aides to Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg
and Secretary of State William F. Galvin said
they haven’t decided, while Attorney General
Maura Healey has declined comment over recent
days.
Baker also said there are questions if parts of
the bill could be targeted at the ballot box. As
the Herald reported yesterday, an avenue could
exist through an initiative petition, which
allows residents to seek to repeal a particular
section of a law, instead of in its entirety.
The Boston Herald
Saturday, January 28, 2017
A Boston Herald editorial
Hypocrisy on pay raise
So Gov. Charlie Baker bought himself a little
time by vetoing the $18 million legislative pay
raise bill — which may or may not turn around a
few more Democratic votes.
Every now and then real citizens, calling their
elected senators and representatives can raise
the temperature enough to turn around what
everyone assumed was a done deal. Opponents
would need the votes of 10 more Democrats in the
House or five in the Senate to sustain the veto.
(All Republicans voted against the raises.)
And it’s not simply the money — enormous though
that is — or the ripple effect (that is, it
impacts not just judges but every clerk whose
salaries are tied to those judicial salaries),
but the hypocrisy used to defend the bill. Take
this from Senate President Stan Rosenberg who
insisted his colleagues have so many financial
obligations.
“They do a lot of things out of pocket that most
people don’t have to do in their jobs, because
we’re expected to show up at everything. We’re
expected to make contributions. We’re expected
to buy ads in program books. And we’re not
complaining. It’s part of the job.”
Indeed it is. Which, no doubt is why Rosenberg
used his ample campaign account to make some
38 such charitable donations in the last quarter
alone, to everything from food banks to the
Friends of the Sycamore to the Amherst Halloween
Fund. And that doesn’t include political
donations.
Lawmakers have plenty of other people’s money to
spend. They don’t need more from the taxpayers. |
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