Senate rejects Romney's compromise on filling vacant Senate seat

[Rose Siding]

BOSTON -- The Democrat-dominated state Senate on Tuesday rejected Republican Gov. Mitt Romney's proposed compromise on how to fill John Kerry's seat if the Massachusetts senator is elected president.

Under current law, Romney would appoint Kerry's successor, and that person could serve until 2006.

But Romney would be stripped of that power under a bill approved by the Legislature. It calls for a special election not more than 160 days and not less than 145 days after a vacancy opens in the Senate.

Romney's veto of the bill would likely be overridden. Instead, he had offered an amendment that would still provide for a special election but allow the governor to appoint a senator during the interim period, up to 160 days.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/13/senate_rejects_romneys_compromise_on_filling_vacant_senate_seat/

[whistle]

1. Wasn't Mitt Romney born and raised in Utah as a staunch...

...republican conservative and member of the Church of Latter Day Saints? What is he doing running a predominately catholic state like Massachusetts as their governor for crying out loud? I'm not fully up on MA politics other than I know that the state has been traditionally democratic and of course the home of the Kennedy's and a number of presidents and presidential candidates over the years. Doe someone as conservative as William F Buckley back a personality like Mitt Romney. I believe he comes from the Romney family that dominated Michigan politics during the 1960's and wasn't George Romney a republican candidate for president but lost to Barry Goldwater over the use of nuclear weapons issue in war? Goldwater said he would not hesitate to use them, so he won the nomination in 1964 and ran against Johnson. Anyway, this Mitt Romney guy sounds like he is the standard deviations to the right of both his uncle George and Goldwater. The guy's policies and political agenda sounds like a brew that could lead to social disaster for the state.

If any of my facts are wrong, please feel free to correct me, I lived through that period, but my memory is somewhat bad on details.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Shannon O’Brien is why Romney won

Robert Reich would have cleaned his clock but he lost the primary to the unappealing O’Brien.

[dusty64]

2. Good.

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[matcom]

3. Romney STILL Doesn't Get It

you don't waltz into Boston as a Repuke Mormon and expect that you have any power.

it don't work that way here Mitt

dumbass