Congratulation to all of you for your dedication & respond To the call to contact the state house to Represent the people.

Thanks

 

Today's ConCon report

from Barbara Anderson


From the State House News Service

 

CONVENES: Sen. Rosenberg gaveled the Constitutional Convention to order at 12:59 p.m.

Sen. Rosenberg recognized Sen. Menard, standing in the center of the well.

Sen. Menard moved that the convention be dissolved.

By voice vote, motion adopted.

DISSOLVES: Sen. Rosenberg declared the Constitutional Convention dissolved at 12:59 p.m.

 

LOL, CLT activists. The stealth attack on the initiative petition process turned into the fastest retreat in constitutional convention history.

 

I was sure that there wouldn't be a constitutional convention this last week of the legislative session, and CLT and its initiative allies have defeated so many of these initiative process attacks that I wasn't worried about this one -- until a news release from the Coalition for Marriage and Families showed me that there was something wrong here: the bill was coming out of the Judiciary Committee with a "favorable" report,

instead of the usual "unfavorable" report from the Election Laws Committee. The enemies of the initiative petition process were crawling through the brush for an ambush!

 

Thanks again to Christen Varley of the Boston Tea Party, CLT activists Norm Paley, Len Mead and Ted Tripp, and Cape Cod columnist Cynthia Stead, for keeping after me until I realized the potential for causing trouble and embarrassing some incumbents. Also thanks to Carlos at the North Shore Tea Party for helping us sound the alarm.  And we are very grateful to the Republican minority leaders. Rich Tisei and Brad Jones, and their teams for preparing to fight in the ConCon if necessary.

 

BTW, you won't find anything on the website about this until Chip Ford gets back from vacation; I can do updates, news releases and memos to the legislature myself, but can't do the website. Chip Ford was on his little sailboat in Massachusetts Bay using his laptop and something called WiFI ? to get the legislator's email addresses off his home computer to mine so I could send the memo. Chip Faulkner was rushing back from an Americans for Tax Reform meeting in Kentucky.  I was "home alone"! Remind me next year: NO one at CLT goes on vacation until the Legislature does!