Posted on 06/02/2015 8:29:44 AM PDT by luke1825
Here is why veteran Statehouse observers are high on Charlie Baker: No politician in modern Massachusetts history has come to the governor's office better prepared or more qualified than Charlie Baker.
And it is beginning to show, not only because he has scored high in the public opinion polls -- polls are fleeting -- but because, even as a Republican in a sea of Democrats, he has had an exceptionally successful beginning.
There are few governors of Massachusetts you can say that about.
"I think he has gotten off to a terrific start," veteran Democrat House Speaker Robert DeLeo said. "He has reached out to us, and he is willing to listen and to work with us."
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.com ...
He out-liberaled the liberals. What else can you say about this putrid RINO?
It’s Massachusetts. What exactly were you expecting?
Assuming the newspaper’s reporting is accurate, Baker has done good things for the state of MA from either a conservative or a liberal perspective.
LOL!!!!!!
... Baker has done good things for the state of MA from either a conservative or a liberal perspective.
He is firmly up the anus of the Gaystapo. He does as good as can be expected from such a position. Fascism, namely.
Charlie's doing a great job as governor. I've met him, he's a nice guy. If he can hold the line with the extremely liberal legislature by charming them, all the better. He's not the governor of Oklahoma.
According to MassResistance, he's scum, and hardly conservative:
From MassResistance.org, assessment of Baker:
- To the Left of Obama! Told the Boston Globe that he is "to the left of Obama" on social issues.
- Gay marriage. Strongly supports same-sex "marriage". Made a video about his gay brother who is "married" to another man, which was prominently featured in the Boston Globe.
- Gay pride parade. Marched in 2010 Boston Gay Pride Parade, which also included transvestites, sado-masochism groups, and numerous other depravities.
In the 2010 gay parade Baker marched with extremely hateful anti-family homosexual "KnowThyNeighbor" activists who were also campaigning for Baker. (They published the names of all who signed the VoteOnMarriage referendum petition so they could be harassed.)
- Abortion. Supports abortion. States bluntly, "I'm Pro-Choice. I support a woman's right to choose."
- Supports new abortion clinic “buffer zone” bill. After the US Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts abortion clinic “buffer zone” bill, Baker publicly supported the new (likely unconstitutional) buffer zone bill that was quickly passed by the Legislature. Nearly all Republicans in the Legislature -- even “pro-choice” ones -- opposed it.
- Hobby Lobby contraception US Supreme Court ruling. The US Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling allows certain companies not to pay for contraceptives for their employees. Baker has said that as governor, he will use $300,000 of taxpayer money to buy contraceptives for employees affected by that ruling.
- Transgender agenda. While Baker was CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care the company had a policy of supporting "gender identity or expression." In 2008 Harvard Pilgrim scored a perfect 100% from the national homosexual group Human Rights Campaign for its employment policies. (This means it even paid for employees' "sex-change" procedures!)
- Homosexual agenda targeting children. While Baker was CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation sponsored the 2005 GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) Conference, pushing homosexuality on schoolchildren -- the same event where the infamous Little Black Book was given out. Also at the time, Kevin Jennings (later Obama's "Safe Schools czar") was still running GLSEN.
Taxes:
- No new taxes pledge. Refused to sign “No New Taxes” pledge this time, though he signed it last time he ran.
- Against tax rollbacks. In 2010 Baker opposed Question 3, which would have rolled the sales tax back to 3%. Instead, he said he wanted to roll the sales tax and income tax both back to 5%. But last September he told the Boston Globe he no longer even wants to push for those tax rollbacks, either.
- Prop 2 1/2 override. Supported prop 2 1/2 property tax override in his town, and was major donor for override effort.
- Quinn Bill. Supports the Quinn Bill, a gift to by the Legislature to the police unions, seen as a fiscal money pit by many conservatives.
- Gun control. Has stated that he supports tough gun control laws.
- Illegal immigration. In July, 2014, when the Obama Administration wanted to ship thousands of illegal immigrants into Massachusetts, Baker told the press, “I think it’s incumbent on the states to be cooperative with the federal government on this issue, given the humanitarian crisis that’s at hand.”
Baker, what a treasure.
is CT is worse shape?
I tried a bit today to participate in the resistance. 2 billion per year of new taxes coming to CT. I walked around with my cell phone trying to get peeeples to call the legislature.
SOme would do it. A lot a big mouths I know got real shy when it comes to calling their rep. Even using a knickname and my phone they wouldn’t do it! I walked away to other peeples ..
the resistance is rather muted. see my tag line
CT should be dived between NY and MA, it’s Senators and State officials stripped of all rank, it’s lovely State Capitol converted into a prison for white collar criminals.
Hartford does have a lovely state house, I’ll give them that (I’ve walked around it inside). Been a long time since anyone of upstanding reputation and impeccable credentials occupied it. With respect to Governors, probably Tom Meskill (1971-75) was the last. Flakes, flim-flammers and phonies ever since.
He’s a RINO, but ~6 months in, I can’t think of anything bad he’s done. Actually, he’s against the farcical 2024 Olympic bid and wants the state income tax rolled back to the 5% level it’s supposed to be at (voted in back in 2000 IIRC).
Better him than Marcia Coakley. This is Massholechusetts, not real, actual America.
One tiny correction as to your tagline: The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 49 states not just 44 (1984 vs. 1980). AND Ronaldus Maximus would have won all 50 states in 1984 if he had not shown mercy to Mondale by cancelling a full immediate pre-election weekend of scheduled campaign appearances in Minnesota. As a result of that mercy, Mondale was allowed to carry his home state by about 1%.
Observation: Baker is not only to Obozo's left on social issues, but now he is trying to go even further and occupy that verrrrry narrow space to the left of Mitt Romney, the wonderbaby of 1960's radicalism posing as a "Republican."
I pray for that number of my father's relatives who are still trapped in Massachusetts. Fortunately, my grandmother moved him outta there more than 90 years ago.
God bless you and yours!
Nonetheless, he did see to the enactment of a state income tax on wages and salaries in Connecticut in 1971. The state electorate and many of the daily newspapers erupted in a successful tax revolt and the hated tax was repealed within a month after enactment and not a nickel was collected. That despicable tax was eventually enacted under Lowell Weicker's regime in 1991. It was LoLo's way of pissing all over Connecticut's voters for giving HIS US Senate seat to Joe Lieberman. Connecticut, to this day, (along with Rhode Island and Utah) has never ratified the federal income tax amendment to the US Constitution
Nonetheless, the next elected governor, Ella Tambussi Grasso, despite a career as a leftist state representative, secretary of state and Congresswoman, made an abrupt right turn upon taking the oath as Governor, turned out to be a very fine governor against all expectations.
Ella was an alumna of Mt. Holyoke despite her humble beginnings. Before her governorship, she was a typical Plague of Women Vipers politician and, along with Abe Ribicoff and State Chairman John Bailey, one of the three major powers in the dominant state Democrat Party.
As governor, she refused to live in the governor's mansion and moved into her old Italian American neighborhood in Windsor Locks. She had been away from the old neighborhood for some years.
Where she had been a reliably pro-abortion Congresswman, as governor, she became a quite dependable pro-lifer. When her Governor's Commission on the Status of Women raked her for vetoing taxpayer funding of abortion, she responded in two ways. First, she stated unequivocally: I will not be a party to the killing of little children. Second, she threatened to fire the entire membership of the commission unless they kept their yaps shut as to her public policies and started doing their collective job of forwarding to her the resumes of women qualified to serve in appointive offices. The commission did what it was told.
Ella also during her five years as governor before she resigned just before her death, kept her vow to NEVER tax wages or salaries. and earned a reputation as a skinflint with taxpayers' money.
Finally, when first campaigning for governor, Ella promised to appoint a social conservative to the eight member state board of education as a watchdog to spread the word on any proposals to corrupt the inmates of gummint edjamakashun to social conservatives throughout Connecticut. Ella appointed Eva Hudak, an old friend of hers who had been the teenaged La Passionara of the Fafnir Bearing sitdown strike in the 1930s but who had become a militantly Catholic and conservative granny by the 1970s with an earned reputation for slashing and burning educrats at public hearings. Many State Capitol Republican legislators joined with the Maoist wing of the Demonrat Party to torpedo Eva's candidacy.
After a long bout with ovarian cancer, Ella resigned on 12/31/80 and died on 2/5/81. A statue of Ella occupies a niche in the facade of that lovely state capitol building. The facade has many such statues but Ella's is the only one of a leader who died after the early 1800s. When she died, she was genuinely beloved by every decent person in Connecticut. The last five years of her life redeemed all of the errors of her earlier life.
Bear in mind that the building is primarily the venue for legislative business (bribery, corruption, political payoffs, etc.). Today, the State Senate has only Joe Markley of Southington/Waterbury and maybe two others who are worth voting for. The Assembly is probably worse. I am glad I left, and, in fleeing, took my family with me.
Curious about Gov. Grasso. I didn’t realize she was one of the few pols to go the opposite of the prevailing direction most do once ensconced in power (and hence becoming a part of the problem).
Of course, I’m surprised you vacated CT for the Elysian Fields of Illinois. Not exactly good for one’s blood pressure if you’re a Conservative. I can’t imagine what my ggg-grandfather’s father-in-law, Seth Gard, one of the founding fathers of Illinois, would think of the state today.
I don’t believe you’ve ever told me about Seth Gard.
I thought I had mentioned him to you. I happened to look up my ggg grandfather tonight, it mentioned he apparently had 21 (!) children between his two wives (Gard’s daughter, his first wife, who died and the French immigrant girl that became his second wife - my ggg grandmother). He was 30 years older than my ggg grandmother.
It’s a ringing a bell now, the 2 wives part at least.
Gard was in the territorial leg?
I believe he may have been a Territorial House Speaker, though I haven’t confirmed that (he did serve in it). He was one of the signers of the IL Constitutional Convention of 1818 held at Kaskaskia. My ggg grandfather was already his son-in-law by that time (if the online records are correct, he was 22 when he married Gard’s 16-year old daughter in 1816). He had already had quite a life in that period. Born in North Carolina, relocated to Middle TN (about a county or so away from where I live) between 1800-1810 or so, then served under Gen. Jackson in the Creek Campaign in Alabama (1813-14) when he would’ve been 19-20.
I mistakenly believed he was in the Battle of New Orleans, since it was just months after the end of the Creek War (Dec 1814-Jan 1815), but apparently he may have departed for the Illinois Territory by then, since he married Gard’s daughter a year later in 1816.
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