http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/devalpatrick/ en-us Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:38:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403026/posts Jennings and the Massachusetts Department of Education knew beforehand what the "sexuality educators" would discuss with children at the "****ing" workshop. The instructor Margot Abels said so herself, and was disappointed when she later became their scapegoat. Jennings, after all, worked hand in hand with the Mass. Department of Education from the beginning, as co-chair of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth education committee, which set up the statewide program, "Safe Schools for Gay and Lesbian Students" in the DOE. That is the program the ****ing workshop instructors worked for. massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403026/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:38:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402370/posts Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts refused to appear at the Clover Club, an Irish American group of businessmen and community leaders in Boston over the weekend because it is a men-only club. Deval was dead wrong. I hope he will similarly cancel visits to the National Organization of Women for the same reason. IrishCentral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402370/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:38:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402323/posts Governor Deval Patrick canceled at the last minute a speech he was scheduled to give before a little-known but prestigious men’s group, saying the invitation was accepted before he knew of its policy toward women. Patrick withdrew from the speech before the 126-year-old Clover Club about two hours before a dinner was scheduled to begin at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on Saturday, according to event organizers. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402323/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369044/posts President Obama blows into the bluest state tomorrow facing a cold shoulder from once true-blue admirers, as gay rights activists, anti-war protesters and vexed environmentalists vow to picket a fund-raiser he’s headlining for Gov. Deval Patrick - a marquee event that hasn’t even sold out. As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats - between $500 and $6,000 - by e-mail up to the last... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369044/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:56:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349056/posts Teddymandering is the practice of changing a law to benefit your political party, then reversing the change when your political party will benefit from the original rules to which you objected. Named for former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy. Senator Kennedy influenced the Massachusetts state legislature to change the Senatorial succession law during the 2004 election. His reasons were strictly because Senator John Kerry, if elected President, would be replaced by an appointee of (then) Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican. At the time, Kennedy was against any interim appointment until a special election could be held. In 2009, as... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349056/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:27:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348395/posts Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. has taken over for the late Edward Kennedy in the Senate. Vice President Joe Biden swore in Kirk on Friday hours after a Massachusetts judge rejected a Republican request to delay it. The GOP had argued that Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick exceeded his constitutional authority by appointing Kirk before a traditional 90-day legislative waiting period had expired. State lawmakers passed a bill this week giving Patrick the power to choose an interim senator. Kirk gives Senate Democrats a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority with the health care fight at a critical point. yahoo/apobama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348395/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348281/posts A Suffolk Superior Court judge today denied a motion by state Republicans to delay Gov. Deval Patrick’s appointment of an interim senator by 90 days. Judge Thomas Connolly this afternoon cleared the way for Paul G. Kirk Jr. to be sworn in as an interim U.S. senator today at 3:15 p.m. in Washington, D.C. Developing ... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348281/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:21:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348072/posts A Suffolk Superior Court judge will decide by noon on a Republican Party appeal for an emergency injunction to block the appointment of Kennedy family confidant Paul G. Kirk Jr. as interim U.S. senator. The state GOP contends Gov. Deval Patrick overstepped his authority by attaching an emergency preamble to the Senate vacancy law signed yesterday so the legislation would be enacted immediately. The usual waiting period for enactment is 90 days. /www.bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348072/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348204/posts A Suffolk Superior Court judge today denied a motion by state Republicans to delay Gov. Deval Patrick’s appointment of an interim senator by 90 days. Judge Thomas Connolly this afternoon cleared the way for Paul G. Kirk Jr. to be sworn in as an interim U.S. senator today at 3:15 p.m. in Washington, D.C. Developing ... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348204/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346136/posts [Judge Napolitano speaking]: "Both houses of the legislature have enacted this law, and once Governor Deval Patrick signs it, and he says that he will, it will become the law, and it will allow him to declare an emergency, and once he declares an emergency, he can authorize non-health care personnel, read that to mean police, to vaccinate people against their will. Now can they force adults to take vaccination? No. They will incarcerate adults without a trial, without charges, without even a search warrant who refuse to be vaccinated; this is what the statute authorizes. The staute also authorizes... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346136/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336721/posts BOSTON -- Citing needed support for health care reform, President Barack Obama said Thursday that Gov. Deval Patrick should have the power to appoint an interim senator to fill the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat. Following up on his congressional address Wednesday night, Obama said he supports rewriting a 2004 election law to allow Patrick to appoint an interim senator to fill the seat. The move would require many Massachusetts lawmakers to reverse the stances they took five years ago, when they stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of appointment power. Obama's Organizing for America committee said in an e-mail that... AP/The Boston Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336721/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:09:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335709/posts State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill today launched a challenge to Governor Deval Patrick as an independent candidate, vowing to cast aside entrenched partisan differences and "make the government we have work." "I do not enter this race to run against any individual or party," Cahill said in a speech in a downtown hotel ballroom, standing before a black banner that proclaimed "Tim for Governor" in white letters. "Instead I run because I believe we need new leadership to make Massachusetts a vibrant place once again." He vowed to make the state a place "where jobs grow and the economy rebounds.... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335709/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:07:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328519/posts Last week the late Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, suggested via letter to state Senate legislators and the Democrat Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, that the law be changed to allow swift replacement of representatives should a vacancy in the Senate occur. It appears that a dying man was seeking his last wish: to preserve the “continuity of representation” for his constituents in Massachusetts. At first glance, this attempt to preserve representation and to put the people of Massachusetts before all else is highly altruistic and admirable. Senator Kennedy even stressed the importance of the republican system... The Politicizer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328519/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:28:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326833/posts Radio Host Howie Carr today revealed that Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is holding a fundraiser on Cape Cod today at the residence of the Red Cross CEO today. Gov. Patrick will be speaking at Sen. Kennedy's "time" tonight. Howie Carr Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326833/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:20:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324955/posts Patrick to support change to succession law @ 1:02 pm by Hill Staff Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) further fired up the political chattering class Wednesday morning when he told a local radio station he would approve a plan to appoint an interim successor to the late-Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) until a special election could be held. "Massachusetts needs two voices," Patrick said during an interview with WBUR-FM radio, which was later picked up by The Associated Press. Currently, Massachusetts requires a special election to be held between 145 and 160 days after a Senate seat becomes vacant. The law... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324955/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:08:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324898/posts Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is supporting a change in state law that would allow him to appoint an interim successor to Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat while a special election is held. The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324898/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324363/posts There is no way, a freeloading governmental health plan, run by civil servants with little or no accountability can ever hope to compete against the profit driven private sector, who's very existence and survival is on the line daily, prompting a degree of responsibility, quality and customer satisfaction that assures fewer mistakes are made, and insuring by the very nature of capitalism, an ever expanding thirst for better, faster, and cheaper service.... Barry's Obamanation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324363/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:11:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324298/posts The inspector general's office for the Social Security Administration is looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending. The Social Security Administration acknowledged the $425,000 glitch following a report that nearly two-dozen inmates in Massachusetts had wrongly received the $250 stimulus checks. NFox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324298/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:22:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322050/posts Hey, Deval, if you thought your recent poll numbers have been abysmal - and they have been - wait until after this latest pool-closing fiasco. You’ll be . . . drowning. Do you know what the governor calls a Herald plane hovering over his sparkling pool and cabana on his $1.7 million estate in Richmond on the second-hottest day of the year? “Every rich man’s nightmare.” The name of Deval’s Berkshires retreat, by the way, is Sweet P Farm. Now we know what the P stands for - pool. Talk about tone deaf - firing Dan Grabauskas, not firing Jim... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322050/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:43:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321706/posts Politics: Should the election law in Massachusetts be changed to keep Ted Kennedy's seat filled and get ObamaCare passed? As in Minnesota and Illinois, the voters might lose again.Recognizing his own mortality and waging a valiant battle against brain cancer, Kennedy has written a letter to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, state Senate President Theresa Murray and state House Speaker Robert DeLeo asking them to change the law so his seat might be filled immediately until a special election could be held. His letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Boston Globe, does not specially mention his illness or... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321706/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:56:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321166/posts Back when I was active in Massachusetts politics, one of my roles was as a coordinator working for Romney when he ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate. My best friend at the time was an Irish-American, retired airline pilot who loved boating as much as I did, and who did boating stuff with me almost every day (as a college professor, I had summers off). One time I laid out the case for Romney over Kennedy to him, and he sadly agreed, but then said that he had to vote for Kennedy because “we owed it to him”. In... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321166/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320877/posts Letter recognizes what we hesitate to say By Scot Lehigh Globe Columnist / August 20, 2009 It’s hard to read Ted Kennedy’s letter without shaking your head in sadness and in wonder. The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320877/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:53:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320601/posts Massachusetts Republicans spoke out today against a proposal by US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, under which Kennedy's Senate seat would be filled by an appointment by Democratic Governor Deval Patrick until a special election could be held. House Minority Leader Brad Jones of Reading said the proposal was based not on "what's best for the whole Commonwealth but based on what's best for one political party." "The hypocrisy is astounding. If we had a Republican governor right now, would we be getting that same letter?" he said. “Everybody feels for Senator Kennedy, but the laws... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320601/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:15:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320485/posts Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, terminally ill with brain cancer, has asked state legislative leaders to change the law and let Gov. Deval Patrick appoint a temporary replacement upon his death. Under current law, the seat would be empty until a special election could be held 145 to 160 days later. But Senator Kennedy, a 77-year-old Democrat, wrote in a letter to the governor that he wanted Massachusetts to have full representation in the Senate during that period. Although he did not mention it in the letter, it is becoming increasingly clear that Democratic votes will be crucial to... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320485/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320435/posts A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has asked Massachusetts leaders to change state law to allow a speedy replacement if it becomes necessary for him to surrender his seat, fearing a months-long vacancy would deny Democrats a crucial vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. In a note to Gov. Deval Patrick and other state leaders, Kennedy asked that lawmakers allow the governor to appoint an interim replacement pending election of a successor, to ensure there would not be a period with a vacancy. Currently, the law requires a special election to be held within five months. "It is... The Minneapolis Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320435/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:17:49 GMT