It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for Gov. Maura Healey yesterday.
The bad news was, the feds arrested another 15 of her beloved sticky-fingered “residents” – also known as illegal aliens, mostly – on charges of massive welfare fraud.
The good news for Maura was, the Democrats have figured out a new way to derail referendums they don’t like – by getting the question thrown off the ballot before the electorate can even vote on it.
Yesterday, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) removed a November ballot question that could have reduced the state income tax from 5 percent to 4 percent. Polls showed it would have passed easily, so it had to be stopped.
But not in the embarrassing way that the legislative audit – passed by 72 percent of the voters in 2024 – has been deep-sixed. That’s been way too messy.
For the hackerama, referendum questions are like a political version of an unplanned pregnancy. (There are exceptions, like the so-called millionaires’ tax, which was finally carried to full term in 2022, after six earlier miscarriages at the ballot box).
When the hacks have to snuff out a referendum after the voters have approved it (in a landslide no less), think of it as the political equivalent of a partial-birth abortion.
On the other hand, consier the hacks’ legal mumbo-jumbo on the proposed income tax cut. Getting it tossed off the ballot before the voters have a chance to approve it – it’s more like a day-after pill to terminate the pregnancy.
No muss, no fuss, except for the unborn child of course. He’s dead, much like the taxpayers of Massachusetts.
The tax-cut was tossed at the last minute by the SJC on the grounds that Atty. Gen. Andrea Joy Campbell’s wording on the ballot question was “significantly misleading.”
Imagine that! A mistake – wink wink nudge nudge – is made, and suddenly the comrades don’t have to worry about losing $5 or $10 billion in money they need for their pet waste, fraud and abuse.
The obvious question is, did AG Campbell make this, uh, mistake, because of a) gross incompetence, b) corruption or c) both.
I’ll take c).
I mean, she is a DEI politician. With DEI, incompetence is not a bug, it’s a feature. On the other hand, doing the bidding of the Democrat vermin who control your budget can be very, very profitable.
First Campbell okayed the legislative-audit question for the 2024 ballot. But after it passed Campbell decided it was, you know, unconstitutional or something. She refused to enforce it.
The legislature was deeply impressed with her astute legal reasoning. She got an extra $11 million in her office budget.
If killing the legislative audit was worth $11 million, how much more is it worth for her to have aborted this troublesome ballot question?
It’s certainly a relief not only to the corrupt legislative leadership but also to Maura Healey.
And it is worth noting again that one of the justices on the SJC just happens to be her former Sapphic soulmate, Gabrielle Wolohojian, whom Maura tapped for the $227,000-a-slot after she dumped her elderly galpal for a much younger female heart throb.
Another nationwide search!
Once again, the SJC is involved in a miscarriage of justice, much like their decision in Commonwealth v. Mattis. That was a terrible ruling that “emerging adult” murderers can be released from prison to kill again, no matter what their sentences.
So now the parole board gleefully cuts loose one vicious politically-wired fiend after another, and then throws up their hands and says, “What could we do? The court made us do it?”
It’s called plausible deniability, even if it’s implausible.
Now the SJC gets to use the same alibi. Sure the voters wanted this tax cut, big-time, but what could we do? The attorney general screwed up, bigtime.
So Andrea Campbell takes the rap. If her assassination of the legislative audit was worth $11 million, this contract hit has to be worth an extra $50 million in her FY 28 budget.
This is what happens in a one-party state. You think Andrea Campbell is worried about reelection? None of her voters care about tax cuts, because they don’t pay taxes, haven’t for generations.
And for the handful of trust-funders in the leafy suburbs who do pay a pittance, all Andrea has to do is put her name on a half-dozen more frivolous lawsuits against Donald Trump.
She’ll get another slobbering puff piece in the Globe, with no mention of her family’s sordid criminal history.
With the SJC decision, yesterday would have been a wonderful day for Maura Healey if not for one dark cloud – that same one that Campbell keeps suing.
There is no law in Massachusetts anymore except from the feds, and yesterday the G-men lugged another 15 alleged welfare-cheating Democrats for, as US Atty. Leah Foley put it, “SNAP benefit fraud, MassHealth benefit fraud and disability and unemployment benefit fraud, just to name a few.”
Just to name a few indeed. Of the 15, 4 or 5 are actual US citizens. Now that’s a surprise. Not so surprising is that four of the illegals are named “John Doe.”
Which means, the feds have no idea who these people are. Although we can be pretty certain they vote Democrat. Illegal aliens vote Democrat almost as unanimously as the dead do.
The legal term for unknown perps is of course “John Doe,” but given the demographics of modern American crime, a more appropriate name might be “Juan Dough.”
Dough as in “Do-re-mi.” That’s what they’re here for, free stuff. Costs a lotta dough to keep these freeloading Democrats flopping in the style to which they have become accustomed.
All these John Does and Juan Doughs – maybe this is what Maura Healey means when she keeps saying she doesn’t know any of the “residents” that ICE is grabbing off the streets.
But at least now she’ll have plenty of dough for them, now that her ex and the rest of the hacks on the SJC have screwed the voters once again, this time even before the vote.
Come to think of it, this wasn’t a day-after pill, it was a day-before pill.
But whatever you call it, it’s just another political abortion in Massachusetts.