Posted on 06/01/2007 11:39:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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If you can’t buy their vote, buy their job
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Friday, June 1, 2007
The way the gay “advocates” look at it, it shouldn’t be this hard to buy a few votes.
The “We’re a Family Too” crowd wants to make sure the voters of Massachusetts never get a chance to weigh in on “gay marriage” next year. Funny how all the Globe polls claim the homosexuals would win at the ballot box, but the gays don’t seem that confident.
In fact, they’re hysterical. Maybe because no electorate ever votes for gay marriage - when they get the chance, that is. So here’s the convoluted deal. Gay marriage, so-called, imposed from above by a bare majority of a renegade court, will be on the ballot here in November 2008. But only if the supporters of the constitutional amendment banning it can get 50 votes out of 200 in the Legislature.
This vote will be taken at a joint meeting of the House and Senate scheduled for June 14. Last January, the let-the-people-decide forces got 62 votes. (They have to take two votes, in different legislative sessions - I told you it was convoluted).
The problem is, several of those 62 were lame ducks, who are now out of the Legislature. The consensus is that the let-the-people-decide crowd is down to 53 or 54.
If they can stay at 50 or above, the electorate will make the decision. But if the gays can switch - or eliminate - three or four of those 50-plus votes, then the highhanded decision of four PC mandarins will trump the will of the people.
Which is just how the “advocates” want it. So they ask each other, can’t these nasty homophobic reps be bought off? With a nice hack sinecure, somewhere. I mean, Gov. Deval Patrick owes the homosexual lobby, big-time. The Mass. Teachers Association, run by leading lesbian Arline Isaacson, pumped millions into his campaign last year.
There’s only one problem with Deval handing out jobs for votes. It’s Chapter 268A, section 2 of the Mass. General Laws. The law prohibits “corruptly offering gifts, or anything of value, to influence any official act.”
OK, say the gays, maybe you can’t buy them off. But what if you just got some of the hetero hacks to take a hike, and not vote? Sorry, that’s covered by Chapter 268A as well. You can’t get any public official to “omit any official act.”
This isn’t to say the gays haven’t been busy, beyond the $700,000 TV buy and the endless vigils, candlelight and otherwise, at the State House. They’ve already flipped at least one vote in the squishy Senate - an epiphany on the road to Northampton.
Meanwhile, Rep. Brian Wallace of South Boston, one of the 62 let-the-people-vote reps last January, is checking out of the Legislature today. Got himself a nice hack state job.
Hey, look, here’s another hack job opening - sergeant-at-arms. You know, the guy with the top hat and the stick who leads the governor into the House chambers for the State of the State address.
Kevin Fitzgerald, a/k/a “Money Fitz,” a sleazy crony of Tommy Taxes, just retired with a $4,542.78-a-month pension.
The gays daydream. They count and they recount. They scheme and they make up their lists and they check them out twice. How about Paul Kujawski? Does the commonwealth need an official beer taster, perhaps?
The gays figure, they’re just hacks, we can buy ’em. Probably not, and anyway, there’s not much time left, and think of the spotlight the solons would be shining on themselves.
In the end it would all be up to Deval to try to fix the case. As inept as he has proven himself to be as governor, Deval did once work at DOJ.
He understands how easy it is to be taken down, if someone with subpoena power and an appropriate statute (Chapter 268A) has a mind to do you in. And if he’s forgotten, he can always take a stroll down Beacon Street and ask Buddy Cianci.
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guess poll got changed
Do you believe in the Nessie the Loch Ness monster?
Yes
31%
No
69%
Thompson's four years older than his MiL.
I once read a story about Victor Posner, or one of those other takeover guys. His current mistress was the daughter of a former mistress. The Palm Beach crowd sort of started to shun him at that point.
yeah I had thought it was yesterday’s poll but I wasn’t sure...then I heard him mention the new poll
4 years older than his mom in law?
Wasn’t there a situation where Bill Wyman of the Stones
was going to marry a woman who was younger than his SON
while the SON was going to marry a woman old enough
to be his mom?
ah here it is from Wikipedia:
>>At age 47, Bill Wyman began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother’s blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill’s 30-year-old son Stephen almost married Mandy’s mother, age 46. That nearly made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. (If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own step-grandfather!)
Must be where they got the idea for Philip J. Fry to do the “nasty in the pastie”.
I can’t wait until Fred Thompson becomes a frequent guest on the Howie Carr Show! I just wish that Howie would often ask tough questions to all of the political guests that he has on his show. I also wish that Howie wouldn’t so often “hog the time” that he has with his guests in order to allow more callers to have the majority of time to talk to Howie’s guests when they are on with Howie. Mitt Romney is on with Howie today.
OTOH, I do remember a Montrealer (Steve?) getting on the air, asking harassing questions to a drug czar, Asa Hutchinson, maybe?
Howie's low point, in my experience, was just being a clymer to Steve Forbes, just because Forbes is rich, a number of primary seasons ago.
How can Romney say it's not "technically amnesty"? His language it too coached for me at this point.
if you can, please post “Police Blotter Facts”
well I’ll try—I’m leaving for work and t-storms may be on the way (I record via computer and want to shut the comp. off...I can set the comp. to shut off automatically in an hour or so
but I just hope the T-storms don’t hit and fry my modem
or something...
and if I did record it I can’t post till tonight when I
get home (3 am)
Re the column — I heard about Brian Wallace (the scum!) a couple of weeks ago. So where do the votes stand now? I didn’t hear of any Rainbow Sash demonstrations around here on Pentecost (their “traditional” day for them). Does that mean they were lying low so as not to alienate the voters any more than they’re already alienated?
Despite all my misgivings, Romney's still got my vote at this point.
You never get everything you want when you cast your vote, unless it's a vote for Ronald Reagan.
On yesterday's topic of Senator Thompson's wifey and her ampleness, and having been there myself, I've got no problem with at all with his choice of a very shapely younger woman.
I just don't see Sen. Thompson winning the the whole thing against who ever the RATs put up against him. I like him, but with the whole package, I think Romney can kick A against any of the RATs I've heard so far.
First, President Ronald Reagan did sign amnesty legislation into law in 1986, and I didn’t want that to happen! Second, I really don’t see Mitt Romney getting enough of the conservative votes that he will definitely need to win against probable Democratic Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. I like Mitt Romney, but I just don’t see a majority in the Bible Belt states deciding to pull the voting lever for a Mormon for POTUS. If Mitt can truly overcome this voting deficit in the Bible Belt states, then he will have a serious chance for victory. Like it or not, Fred Thompson presently has a lot of conservative momentum going his way, and I’m more than willing to give Fred a chance to seriously prove himself to be a very decent conservative Presidential candidate. Third, down the road, the Republicans may possibly end up deciding on a Presidential ticket of Fred Thompson/Mitt Romney, and this seems like a decent Presidential ticket that could satisfy many voters at the same time. I would also be happy with either a Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter or a Fred Thompson/Michael Steele ticket out of many other GOP Presidential ticket possibilities. Finally, I’m also very concerned about the aftermath of President Bush possibly signing “More Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants” into “law” sometime later this month. What will be the political consequences of the President doing this, and will it become the final nail in the coffin for the entire Republican Party? What would be the next move by a majority of conservatives if this “amnesty disaster” does become law throughout the U.S.? Will interest in the Republican Party at every political level profoundly wane after Congress passes it and the President signs it to the point that it doesn’t matter who the Republicans finally pick as their final Presidential ticket?
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I work weird hours.
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If Hillary's the democratic nominee, the Bible Belt will do anything to stop her. And Mitt's a pretty good alternative to Hillary, given that he agrees with the fundie protestants on many issues of importance. At the end of the day, when voting for president, most Bible Belt types care more about a candidate's policies than his theology.
I sure do hope that you are right about this. Like it or not, there are many voters throughout the U.S. who will always vote on principle, and if none of the Presidential candidates truly represent what these voters are really looking for in a Presidential candidate, then they will either blank the vote for President or just stay at home on election day and not vote at all. Most people at Free Republic didn’t predict that the Republicans would end up losing both Houses of Congress on November ‘06, and I’m very concerned about the future of the U.S. as a country. We may end up seeing both the possibility of more amnesty for illegals becoming law very soon as well as the possibility of a President Hillary Clinton administration being forced upon all of us in opposition to her socialist ways.
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