It appears that the ailing (maybe they mean “ale”) Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy is requesting that the state legislature change the law that requires a special election in the case of a U.S. Senator’s resignation or death. He wants the governor to appoint a successor speedily, in time to help the Democrats pass the bill for government-run health care, or, more
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accurately, medical fascism. Here is Kennedy’s letter to state leaders.
If the state legislature does this, I predict that Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, will be the new Massachusetts Senator. If there’s a special election, then it is very likely that former Congressman (and Ted’s nephew) Joe Kennedy, a buddy of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, will get the nod.
In 2004, Kennedy made a similar request. He and the Democrats didn’t want then-Gov. Willard Mitt Romney to appoint a Republican in the case that Sen. John “Live-Shot” Kerry (pronounced “Kevvy” in East Boston, Revere and parts of Brighton) were to win his bid for President. At that time, the law was that the governor would appoint a successor, and they changed it, and overrode Romney’s veto, to having a special election. You see how things go? (i.e. Kennedy was for the law before he was against it.)
Kennedy is asking that an interim senator be appointed until the special election and asking that it be a “temporary” senator who wouldn’t run in the special election, just as was the case between John F. Kennedy’s resignation as Senator to become President in 1961, until his younger brother Ted was old enough to run in the special election in 1962.
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As the Boston Herald’s Howie Carr says, it’s time to say “no” to bending the laws for Kennedys another time.
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