Bay State wants everyone to count ( Mass losing people, money, congressional seats, power ... )

Boston Globe ^ | July 4, 2006 | Andrea Estes

[Gay State Conservative]

I disagree that they are clueless...

All I can think of to say to you is..you obviously don't get to Boston,Cambridge,Brookline or Newton very much,do you?

[bruinbirdman]

"could lose up to two congressional seats, as well as federal money for highway, education, and development programs that are tied to population"

It is not necessarily the population that determines government largess. Ask Senator Bird how many people are in West Virginia. Washington, D.C. has no voting representation in congress but does pretty well when it comes to budgets. How much did Massachusetts contribute to the Big Dig and how much did the rest of the country hand over? California just hocks itself to the gills

Where there is senority there is bucks.

yitbos

[youthgonewild]

New York losing Congressional seats actually isn't as good a thing as it would seem on the surface. Democrats have a great shot at taking both state Houses and Spitzer will likely be governor during the next redistricting. The seats that will be lost will almost certainly be Republican.

[lucky american]

A lot of Mass., Conn.,and N.Y., plates here this lovely weekend. Think they might stay? No sales tax and income tax!! I bet ya they will.

[gidget7]

Hahaha no more than I can possibly help no. But I don't believe it still. Especially those in office. I have watched the debates on the floor of the legislature. Where the tears start flowing from grown men, and they start reciting from the activist playbook, and none of what they say is in fact true.

I firmly believe they know the truth.

[Richard-SIA]

LOL!

"We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."

Uh yah, and every GRAVE MARKER!

[gidget7]

Heck I live near Northampton, and I can barely stomach that! I avoid it like the plague.

[Jim Noble]

Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seats

Now that would be progress!

[george76]

What ever happened to the idea of cheap/free university of Mass tuition for illegal immigrants ?

Did it pass ?

[george76]

If Mass offers extra high welfare, food stamps, free health care, free housing ...they might attract many lazy bumbs to move there for the census period.

[mathurine]

How about a few hundred filthy buggers from Gitmo? You only get to count them as long as you are willing to keep them, however.

[Vince Ferrer]

They will fix this by making a law that you can be a citizen of Massachusetts without being a citizen of the United States. Illegals will flock there.

[Gay State Conservative]

Heck I live near Northampton, and I can barely stomach that! I avoid it like the plague.

Your being located way out west explains your previous post.I suggest to you that a knowledge of the four cities/towns that I mentioned earlier is essential to truly understanding the politics of the state.

Although one could say that Northampton is a microcosm of Cambridge!

[gidget7]

I don't think it has come to a vote yet.

[gidget7]

LOL Indeed it is, GSC, indeed it is.

[TXnMA]

I'm doing my part. I escaped from MA with my wife, one daughter, and two granddaughters. Now we're working on an E&E plan for our son, daughter-in-law, and another granddaughter...

[paul51]

You think these numb skulls would be more interested in why people are leaving and what to do about that rather than trying to tweak the numbers.

[paul51]

Now that would be progress!

Let's figure out a way they could loose 2 senate seats!

[Reagan is King]

We're going to look in every nook jail cell and cranny cemetary in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."

[JohnnyZ]

We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts

That could get pretty nasty in Provincetown, although I'm sure there'd be plenty of volunteers with trained cranny-exploring hamsters.