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Massachusetts Kills Plan to Prioritize Homeless Veterans Over Migrants
Newsweek ^ | 04/29/2024 | Nick Mordowanec

Posted on 04/29/2024 11:18:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

All but two Massachusetts House Democrats voted against an amendment to provide statewide shelter priority to U.S. military veterans over migrants.

On Friday, all 25 Massachusetts state House Republicans were joined by two others across the aisle in voting for Amendment 698 as part of House Bill 4600. The amendment introduced by Republican Minority Leader Bradley Jones, titled "Homeless Veterans Prioritization for Shelter Assistance," failed on a 27-129 roll call vote.

01:17 Massachusetts Asks Citizens to Take in Migrants Amid State of Emergency By Nick Mordowanec Staff Writer FOLLOW 72 All but two Massachusetts House Democrats voted against an amendment to provide statewide shelter priority to U.S. military veterans over migrants.

On Friday, all 25 Massachusetts state House Republicans were joined by two others across the aisle in voting for Amendment 698 as part of House Bill 4600. The amendment introduced by Republican Minority Leader Bradley Jones, titled "Homeless Veterans Prioritization for Shelter Assistance," failed on a 27-129 roll call vote.

"It's extremely disappointing that most Democrats were unwilling to support an amendment to prioritize eligibility for the state's emergency housing assistance program for honorably discharged homeless veterans," Jones told Newsweek via email on Monday.

The vote occurred one day after a supplemental budget was sent to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, who in October said that her state lacks the space, services and funding to safely expand beyond providing shelter for 7,500 families—of which that quota was nearly reached prior to Halloween amid a migrant surge to the Bay State. Massachusetts is spending about $75 million each month on state-run shelters, according to The Boston Globe, after Healey declared a state of emergency last summer.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aliens; homeless; invaders; massachusetts; migrants; veterans
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1 posted on 04/29/2024 11:18:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They want a new constituency, and will sell the lives of veterans and citizens to get it.


2 posted on 04/29/2024 11:22:05 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The number of rogue U.S. states is increasing under Biden.
We need a Congess that would cut them off by ending the many federal programs that propr them more than those same programs do for the “Red” states.


3 posted on 04/29/2024 11:23:16 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did any of the democrat legislators ever serve in the military??????????????????????


4 posted on 04/29/2024 11:31:11 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tells you everything you need to know about Democrats and their plans.


5 posted on 04/29/2024 11:31:22 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Wuli

A new Congress ain’t gonna solve this.

Importing a new population to the detriment of the militia of the actual citizenry?

Um...there’s a word for that.


6 posted on 04/29/2024 11:31:34 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is not the time to fight the abortion battle. Win the election. Then fight the abortion battle.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 11:36:07 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: john drake

Indeed, it only shows how corrupt demonrats are.


8 posted on 04/29/2024 11:38:16 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What else do you expect fromdems.

But will the populace wake up?

NOPE.

They’ll keep voting the traitors in.

And then when their lives become hell because of the crime etc, they’ll whine and flee the state, to turn NH into MASS 2. SPIT!


9 posted on 04/29/2024 11:42:34 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Massachusetts and Healey are spending $millions
to defend, protect and free, serial rapists of children.


10 posted on 04/29/2024 11:44:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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They spit in the faces of our sons and daughters. The same bunch that spit on Vietnam veterans.


11 posted on 04/29/2024 11:49:42 AM PDT by ssfromla (R)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obscene.


12 posted on 04/29/2024 11:52:55 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope all veterans leave the state.


13 posted on 04/29/2024 11:53:24 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sons of Bitches aren’t into Sons of Liberty anymore, I guess.


14 posted on 04/29/2024 11:55:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Veterans risked and lost their lives to protect the country that these leftists hate.


15 posted on 04/29/2024 12:05:17 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Indeed this says it all.

Massachusetts House Democrats


16 posted on 04/29/2024 12:30:46 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As if MA was going to suddenly straighten out its priorities...


17 posted on 04/29/2024 1:10:45 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is no asshole like a Boston asshole.


18 posted on 04/29/2024 1:20:00 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trumpp. PA)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Massachusetts Says:

It’s not what you did for America yesterday - That’s a nation that we no longer give a crap about.

It’s what you will do for the democrats and the Socialist/Globalist movement tomorrow.

Besides - too many veterans vote-while-white.

And everyone knows that far too many of them vote the wrong way.


19 posted on 04/29/2024 2:22:50 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Where Islam dominates freedom, civility, Jews and Christians die)
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To: Vaduz

People thinking this way should be deported to..maybe Gitmo.


20 posted on 04/29/2024 3:08:20 PM PDT by oldtech
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