By Marion Valentine ——Bio and Archives--January 14, 2010
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[A] spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor's Council would take a while.... Another source told the Herald that Galvin's office has said the election won't be certified until Feb. 20.... Since the US Senate doesn't meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held. But [interim Senator Paul] Kirk and Galvin's office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo. In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the US House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.Democratic Party officials are openly declaring that they will refuse to seat the duly elected senator from Massachusetts, for no other reason than because they don't like how he will vote on a specific piece of legislation--even though the people elected him to vote that way. The pledge not to certify Scott Brown is an assault on representative government itself. This is a development that turns the Massachusetts special election into something much bigger and more basic. The issue in Massachusetts is no longer just the fate of the health care bill. The issue is: who is in charge here--the politicians or the people? Are they our representatives--or our rulers? Note the justification offered for the plan to block Brown from voting on the health care bill if he wins: the idea that this is "Ted Kennedy's Senate seat" and therefore shouldn't be used to vote against Kennedy's agenda. To this question, Brown provided the best answer in Monday night's debate: "With all due respect, it's not the Kennedys' seat, it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat." The Democrats' arrogant sense of entitlement to power is part of a larger pattern: a systematic expression of contempt for the governed. The Democrats have turned against democracy. I may be a little optimistic, but my contacts in military intel tell me the unrest among military members is growing, and many would side with the people in a revolution, even the most rabid Marxist/Socialists in Congress must know this, and they must know that We The People are on the point of revolt, and are only waiting for the 2010 elections to try to PEACEFULLY take back our country. They also know that any further attempts for power grabs on their part before the elections could very possibly be the spark that would cause a revolt. To survive as a party they must throw Obama, Reid and Pelosi under the bus, and stop pushing the radical Marxixt agenda.
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Marion A. Valentine U.S. Navy Intelligence/Cryptologist (disabled)