Massachusetts Democrat Secretary Of State Says He Will Delay Certification Of Brown To Force Passage Of Health Control
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts’s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy’s former seat.
Secretary of State William F. Galvin, citing state law, says city and town clerks must wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the Jan. 19 election. They then have five more days to file the returns with his office.
Galvin bypassed the provision in 2007 so his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a veto of then-Republican President George W. Bush, but the secretary says U.S. Senate rules would preclude a similar rush today.
The potential delay has become a rallying point for the GOP, which argues Democrats have been twisting the rules to pass the health care bill despite public opposition. It’s also prompted criticism from government watchdogs.
“We believe that elections should be by the people and for the people, and when the people have spoken, the system ought not be politicized,” said Common Cause President Bob Edgar, a former member of Congress. “If the Republican wins, the person should be seated immediately. If the Democrat wins, the person should be seated immediately.”
Massachusetts Democrats already changed state law last fall so the governor could appoint a fellow Democrat to fill the seat after Kennedy died in August.
Now that interim replacement, Sen. Paul G. Kirk Jr., says he will vote for the bill if given the chance, even if Republican Scott Brown beats Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat permanently. Brown, a state senator, has pledged to vote against the bill; Coakley, the state attorney general, supports it.
Businessman Joseph L. Kennedy, no relation to the late senator, is also mounting an independent campaign, but he has trailed badly in public opinion polls. He, too, opposes the bill.
Kirk and Coakley represent the crucial 60th Democratic vote to prevent a filibuster of the legislation. A Brown victory would shift the chamber’s balance to 59-41—just enough for Republicans to block the legislation.
Yet passing or stopping the bill could depend on when the new senator is seated. Obama is angling to get the bill passed before he delivers his State of the Union speech, most likely in early to mid-February.
“Until a new senator is sworn in, Sen. Kirk is the senator,” Coakley said.
While Galvin wrote a letter in 2007 so Democrat Niki Tsongas could assume a U.S. House seat immediately after a special election, an aide said he would not do so in the case of the upcoming Senate election.
“The Senate requires the certificate of election, which can only be issued after this period takes place,” spokesman Brian McNiff said.
Democrats control the Senate, and they argue there is recent precedent for withholding a seat until local officials certify an election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his colleagues waited 238 days before seating fellow Democrat Al Franken last year after Republicans challenged his 2008 election all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
“When there is a certified winner in Massachusetts, the Senate has received appropriate papers and the vice president is available, the successor to Kennedy/Kirk will be sworn in,” said Reid spokeswoman Regan Lachapelle.
She said that could take “a week or more.”
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Le me guess…..’top election official” = ACORN plant.
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That having to waite 10 days for certification is fucking bullshit!!!! That cunt pelosi had Bill Owens sworn in and voting yey for the healthcare shit before the fucking election votes were even counted. His certification came weeks after the election yet she still swore him in. This was in NY 23. So I don’t want to hear that shit it takes weeks before he can be sworn in to vote. NY is just as fucked up as Mass.
Galvin assisted Coakley in the bitches attempt to block 100,000 military votes in 2008. On that note, we have no reason to believe that the election will be honest; Coakley has put dozens of officials in place who hold key postions that will determine the outcome of the election - it is blatantly fixed from the start. Galvin and Coakley should be arrested.
Again, the shot heard ’round the world was heard here. I think it will be heard here again if this happens.
I have never seen such a broader spectrum of pissed off people. The elderly, the young, unions, police (when a state police officer gives me the thumbs up for a ‘Coakly - Political Whore’ bumper poster, when police officers honk and cheer Scott Brown supporters, when people who admit to having voted democrat for generations say publically they are voting for Scott Brown, when people want to hear if a town hall is giving absent voters problems so they can drive there and give problems back…
MA is ready, in my opinion, to boil over.
Just like the rest of the country, you can’t find 9mm and .223 in all the usual places. While driving through NH I hear residents making jokes about going down to MA to help in the revolution.
Vermonters are pissed!
Something is brewing here in MA. You can feel it.
I stated loudly in a cro wded Stop and Shop ‘VOTE JAN. 19th for Scott Brown’ and heard ‘YEAHs’ from all around the store.
Texas may be angry and Montana might be ready but MA is pissed. Off.
Tick, tick, tick…
7.62 MM. Ball ammo. Selector on full auto.
When, Oh God almighty, When are we going to execute the “Order”????? When are these fuck ass shit stains gong to be put inside a large sized microwave storage and set the fucking device for 20 minutes until they turn into blundering pieces of shit and then we execute experiments on them to see what kind of vomit brains they have???? Heck, I’m beginning to think that we may need the NAZI party to take over the leadership of our armed forces since the current establishment seem to lack balls to do anything about the total urination and fecal assault of our constitution. I;’m ready to ram into the first fucking car I see tomorrow with an Obama sticker on it, I swear to God!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then, once I’m out, it will be hell to anyone stopping me….but…… I’m calm and calculative, I have my ways…..folks, Not sure but there’s got to be a way to ignite the Mass. Militia. I would drive there, I would need to drive over 500 miles to get there, but if the Civill Strife starts there, I will be there, I’m equiped, NVS Gen 5, plenty of cool “tools” and ammo AND pliers (know how to use them) to give away……Let’s “ROLL” if this Mass. election turns into a freak show…………………….Let’s fucking push these commies into the Atlantic Ocean and then let their blood stain the sands…… Gosh, what a beautiful YouTube content that shit would make………..
tim - i agree people are pissed in ma.. the hyannis campaign office is busy all day and night. he is going to win and this is a start to better times in this f-ing state. it does not bother me that he is a rino. to bury ted this way is so f-ing pleasing. i am loving this.
Again, where is our military? They have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies; foriegn and domestic! The National Guard does also.
Who in the hell to these sumbitches think they are? A shennanigan this blatant will kick the revolution off. If this damn health care bill is so good why all the underhanded crap? I know why. I just can’t believe that we are going to have to fight it out in the street. There has never been a leftist group in power that has surrendered it voluntarily…never. They will lie, cheat and steal in the name of their blessed utopia. Infreakingcredible! See you at the party.
I hate to say I told you so…but I told you so yesterday…they are laying the groundwork
Dont believe me? Go to the post “Its not Ted Kennedy’s seat, its the people’s seat”
Yeap, and the groundwork elsewhere is to execute a Civil War. If this happens, and our generals and service men and women (and Civil Guard) don’t stand up, hell WILL BREAK LOSE….. This is clearly a violation of the people of the United States of America……
Of course they will. They will use all legal and illegal means against the will of the people. Will Mass. throw the rest out for their tatics….nope. Kerry, Kennedy,….nope.
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Send the tea party to his house….
But bawney fwank says that this is a lie. So it must be true.
WShoops. I meant “twue”.
See, typing with your thumbs is not the best way.
No, typing with your thumbs is fine, but speaking with your mouth full of cock (bawney fa-wank) is what should be avoided!!
Then the revolution should start at this election official’s house.