Posted on 05/21/2014 4:57:25 AM PDT by massmike
Starting tomorrow, it’s no longer illegal to be illegal in Somerville, according to Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, who is slated to sign an executive order Thursday barring his cops from holding undocumented aliens in jail simply for immigration violations — an unprecedented move, even in the Bay State, though other communities may quickly follow suit.
“We need to stop villainizing these people and start solving the problem,” Curtatone told the Herald yesterday. “Massachusetts holds itself out as a progressive state. We should lead the way. We hold ourselves out as a progressive community that believes in fairness and doing the right thing. This is morally the right thing to do.”
Somerville — which made national headlines in 2012 for banning the word “illegal” in reference to illegal immigrants — would be the first community in Massachusetts to join the so-called Trust Act movement, a national push to relax immigration enforcement.
Police would only comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers to hold illegals if they had a criminal warrant or if police had a non-immigration-related legal purpose, Curtatone plans to announce today at a press conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Your allegations would be more compelling if they were factually based.
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Ya need more kid ???
OKie doke...
Lets go back to a time when nobody was threatening your sensitive coardly boy Willard ..
1992 Debate for US Senate..no Maggie no anybody..
Just Willard and his FReedom to speak microphone..
opposite Ted Kennedy..
So what did your boy Willard say at that seemly maybe sole time he was free to voice his own precious to him opinion ???
Abortion..He declared Roe V Wade “the law of the law” sancosant..untouchable..He would not attempt to overturn the law...”a woman’s right”..Willard even touched his cold empty heart and said he “sustained” the law..Folks when a Mormon says that it don’t come any more important...he really really really means it.. Even Teddy was beaten in that part of the debate..
(Willards pagan unbiblical unchristian religion was introduced into the conversation by you Janie)
Homosexual issues...Homosexual leaders in the Boys Scouts..Willard was all for it...
and so on...
Your boy Willard was not a wee lil boy clinging to your skirts at that time... He was a grown idiot over 40 years old..
Since then and during times when he also was not governor of a state (BTW the ONLY time he was ever in office and had any type of experience)
He has called for abortions of babies conceived by rape, incest, and when the health of the pregnant femalewith be adversely affected...oh golly gosh the reasoning behind Roe V Wade..
and for the homosexuals...
homosexuals in the military,
homosexuals as leaders of the Boy Scouts
homosexuals as adoptive parents because as your boy Willard said “They are in a loving relationship”
oh cant you feel the love ???
is that the of love you cant find in me ???
Willards kind ???
I would hope so...
I don’t love the murder of babies...
and I don’t love the idea of degenerate sex...
nor do I love those who delight in such evil...
Yeah Janie as Gay State ays ...”you *still* haven’t told us who Margaret Marshall is.”
apparently she was Willard’s keeper when he was gov..
or not..
Seems Willard is not a “The Buck Stops Here Type”
BTW that time in 1992 when he lost to Ted ???
He later claimed it was all his wifes fault..
Annie made him do it that time...
Liberal Progressive Willard and his RomneyBots are all excited because of the Conservative loses yesterday...
“There’s hope for our fair haired white and delightsome boy yet”
Maybe Willard will choose Lindsey Graham as his running mate...
OK,I throw the question open...no googling or other research allowed....who is Margaret Marshall,to whom is she married and what role,if any,has she recently played in Massachusetts politics? I know ladyjane knows the answer....ten bucks says that none of you others know (without looking it up,of course).
LOL, is this the kiddy contest, testing peoples memory on discussions from 6 and 7 years ago?
We spent years deconstructing you lefty, pro-gay, Romney posters, so now you want to start all over again, bring in the old players, the old links, the old documents and articles, and rehash your dreamy candidate all over again?
No wonder you are so devoted to the man, look at your posts, and how silly and excitable they are.
Romney’s radical leftism is what guided him on gay marriage, he was also a supporter of homosexuality the military, and homosexual Scout leaders, it is why he punished the Scouts during the Winter Olympics in 2002.
Mitt is famous for his powerful support for the homosexual agenda.
So you don't know either.I'll tell ya what....google her name and get back to us.Of course when you do you'll have so much egg on your face we'll hear no more from you on the subject to which she's connected.
And here's another quiz for ya...it's multiple choice so you have a chance of being correct even if you don't look it up:
Over the last 10+ years the Rat Party has held,approximately,what percentage of the seats in the state legislature (House and Senate):
25%
33%
55%
80%
90%
I have not lived in MA, but I have been there and studied their politics for years (as it is a premier example of when the left-wing takes over a state GOP and the disaster that ensues).
GSC, Margaret Marshall is the South Africa born infamous ultra-leftist former Chief Justice of the SJC, a Weld/Cellucci appointee. The one who made up out of whole cloth the “right” to “gay marriage.” An abomination if there ever was one.
Gay marriage and polygamy in the USA began with the
pen and demand of the RAT Willard Romney who
IMPOSED his demand against the Mass. Constitution.
Romney is the author of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE, conservative
backstabbing, AND Romneymarriage/gaymarriage.
The issue is ROMNEYS IMPROPER EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY
where he thinks as a divine carpetbagger and imposer
of polygamy and gay marriage and RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
that he is smarter and better than the Constitution.
He is not. Romney has destroyed America with Soros
(his partner in jetBlue) and Obama (his true partner).
The imposition of gay marriage (and then polygamy)
was from, and was ONLY from, Willard Carpetbagger Romney.
Note Romney’s use of improper executive authority. [The Romney Way™]
"While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claims he did everything possible to throttle homosexual marriage in his state – his campaign now saying he took "every conceivable step within the law to defend traditional marriage" – several constitutional experts say that just isn't so.
"What Romney did [was] he exercised illegal legislative authority," Herb Titus said of the governor's actions after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its opinion in the Goodridge case in 2003. "He was bound by what? There was no order. There wasn't even any order to the Department of Public Health to do anything."
Titus, a Harvard law graduate, was founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School. He also worked with former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, ...
Romney's aides have told WND that after four of the seven court members reinterpreted the definition of marriage, he believed he had no choice but to direct clerks and others to change state marriage forms and begin registering same-sex couples.
Some opponents contend that with those actions, Romney did no more or less than create the first homosexual marriages recognized in the nation. And Titus agrees."
"....But the court's decision conflicts with the constitutional philosophy of three co-equal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, Titus said. It also violates with the Massachusetts Constitution, which states: "The power of suspending the laws, or (suspending) the execution of the laws, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature..."
And it cannot even be derived from the opinion itself, asserts the pro-family activist group Mass Resistance, which says the decision did four things:
* First, it acknowledged that the current law does not permit same-sex marriage.
"The only reasonable explanation is that the Legislature did not intend that same-sex couples be licensed to marry. We conclude, as did the judge, that G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."
* Second, it said it is NOT striking down the marriage laws (among other things, the Massachusetts Constitution forbids a court to change laws)
"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief."
* Third, it declared that not allowing same-sex marriages is a violation of the Massachusetts Constitution.
"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution."
* And fourth, given that the court is not changing any laws, the SJC gave the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate."
"We vacate the summary judgment for the department. We remand this case to the Superior Court for entry of judgment consistent with this opinion. Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion."
After the Legislature did nothing during the 180 days, Romney then took action "on his own," the group said.
"Gov. Romney's legal counsel issued a directive to the Justices of the Peace that they must perform same-sex marriages when requested or 'face personal liability' or be fired," the group said."
Was their jokes about it at one time being the Armpit of Massachusetts? Visited the city once in the late 80's, Oye-Vey, nothing to write home about then....
Hmm, I thought MA had a highly competitive mult-candidate race for the rat nomination for Governor. But a recent poll shows Martha Coakley far out in front, 51%-7% over Steve Grossman. Seriously?
For the general she leads useless RINO Chazz Baker by 39%-30%.
Marsha Coakley is involved in a Federal investigation regarding hirings, I suspect she’s going down.
I suspect Chaz B. is going to “win” in November.
The Mass. primary isn’t until September, so Democrats have plenty of time to get Coakley out of there if she’s indicted and nominate Grossman instead.
True, but Baker’s going to win against whoever the RATS nominate.
FWIW Baker has a conservative primary opponent
http://www.markfisher2014.com/
Nice to see that Dennis Franz has lost some weight.
He doesn’t seem like much of a threat to Baker but the state party took a page from the Chicago democrats and tried to kick him off the ballot anyway, they failed.
My understanding was the opposite: that the state party bent the rules in order to allow Fisher to be on the primary ballot. Fisher had failed to get the required 15% in the state convention, getting 14.7% or something like that, but the Mass. GOP let him get on the primary ballot anyways.
Yeah, the geniuses tried and failed. Ah, the MA GOP...
I read that Fisher had to sue them to get on.
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