As a citizen of Massachusetts I urge you to support giving our Governor the authority to appoint an interim US Senator to fill Senator Kennedy’s seat. If my daughter needs health care services I don’t want to have to tell her that she doesn’t have it because the Massachusetts legislature voted against giving it’s citizens’ equal representation with every …
interim senator
Please approve the proposal allowing the governor to appoint a temporary U.S. Senator pending the special election in January. That vote could mean the difference between a health care plan and no health care plan.
Deciding to vote for an interim Senator
This afternoon, the House of Representatives voted by 97 to 58 to authorize the Governor to appoint a senator pending the outcome of the special election in January. After a lot of soul searching, I had committed to vote in the majority and did so.
For the appointment by the Governor
Dear Rep William Brownsberger, This is to express my support for the draft legislation under consideration to empower Governor Patrick with the authority to appoint an interim senator for Senator Kennedy’s seat. It is very important for our state to be fully represented until election is held, specially at this time of furious fight in …
Shared Parenting Bill H1400
I’m a resident of Arlington and a divorced father of two children, now 10 and 13. There is a bill now before the Judiciary committee H1400, and a senate version S1569. This bill would create a rebuttable presumption of shared child custody in cases of divorce. This bill is very important to me, and to …
Why subsidize corporations through noncompetes?
Recently I spoke with a colleague who has been unemployed for 6 months after being laid off from a large publicly traded employer. He was an individual contributor engineer, working on implementing new features in a fairly mature piece of software; certainly not a position you could consider in any way as having access to strategic …
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