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For It Before I Was Against It Redux
Yep. Via
WSJ.
"John Kerry, the former junior Senator from Massachusetts, was back
in Boston Wednesday, urging the state legislature to change the law
governing U.S. Senate vacancies. The seat held by Edward Kennedy from
1962 until his death last month is to be filled in a January special
election. Mr. Kerry, echoing a letter Kennedy wrote not long before he
died, asked lawmakers to enact legislation allowing Governor Deval
Patrick to appoint a Senator to serve in the interim.
"What Ted proposed is a plan that is hardly radical," Mr. Kerry
declared in his prepared testimony. "It's hardly even unprecedented,
even in Massachusetts." That's for sure. The law in the Bay State
provided for interim appointment by the Governor as recently as 2004.
That, of course, was the year that Mr. Kerry won the Democratic
nomination for President. Just in case he won, the state legislature
changed the law to strip the Governor of this power. That change also
came at Senator Kennedy's urging.
What changed in the ensuing five years? In 2004, the Governor, Mitt
Romney, was a Republican. Mr. Patrick is a Democrat. So are the
overwhelming number of state lawmakers, who overrode Mr. Romney's veto.
Raw partisan advantage explains why Mr. Kerry, like his departed
colleague, was for the 2004 change before he was against it."
1 comment:
Hmm, wonder why this mainstream media forgot to report on this about-face in Massachusetts?
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