National Republican group aiming to end Democratic supermajority in Massachusetts Statehouse

[unhappycamper]

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/national_republican_group_aimi.html

National Republican group aiming to end Democratic supermajority in Massachusetts Statehouse
State House News Service
on July 31, 2015 at 2:35 PM
By Andy Metzger

BOSTON — The Republican State Leadership Committee aims in next year's elections to end the supermajorities that Democrats enjoy in the Massachusetts House and Senate, part of a multi-prong effort to advance Republicans in various state Legislatures.

The group, which plans to spend $40 million on 2015-2016 legislative races, announced that Massachusetts would be one of its focuses from its national meeting in Boston on Thursday.

The Bay State will share attention with the Illinois House, as well as Republican legislatures hoping to defend their ranks and the six chambers where the group sees the best chance to pick up a majority: the Colorado House, Kentucky House, Washington House, Iowa Senate, Minnesota Senate, and New Mexico Senate.

Long dominant in the House and the Senate if not the Corner Office, Democrats hold 125 of the 160 seats in the House and 33 of the 40 seats in the Senate where a special election is currently underway following the death of Sen. Tom Kennedy, a Brockton Democrat.

[SamKnause]

1. And the Democratic Party will stand idly by

and let it happen.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair has been a miserable

failure !!!!

They are successfully purging all the liberals and progressives.

[merrily]

2. As many as possible were purged years ago. They want to finish the job soon.

Check out this wiki and click on some of the names of DNC heads in the last 30 or so years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category emocratic_National_Committee_chairs. Also, what we seldom look at is that the DNC has CEOs as well as chairs.

BTW. There is a colon in the link with no space after it, which, on this board, results in a smilie. I don't know how to get the smilie out of the link and keep the link functioning, so just google Democratic National Committee chairs wikipedia

The Kochs have tried twice for a potential Presidential nominee from Massachusetts, namely Brown and Romney. They're probably going to try with Baker. However, a Governor cannot do much in Massachusetts because the legislature can thwart him or her without too much trouble. So, they're going after the legislature. That's how it looks to me, anyway.