Whenever you vote, don’t forget all the races further down the ballot.
Right now, Massachusetts is a one-party state. How’s that one working out for you?
Pretty damn good, if you’re a criminal illegal alien on welfare, which almost all of them are, in one way or another.
Not so hot, though, if you’re a tax-paying, law-abiding U.S. citizen who works for a living, at a real job, as opposed to a phony-baloney government hack job.
Granted, the state Republican party in Massachusetts has been on the ropes for years. That means that in most parts of the state, once you get past Trump for president and Deaton for Senate, you’re not going to have a lot of opportunities to vote “R.”
For instance, of the 160 seats in the state House of Representatives, the local GOP is only contesting 48. Of 40 state Senate seats, the Republicans are only fielding candidates in 13 districts.
Only two of the nine far-left U.S. House Democrats face even token opposition. Just three of the eight Governor’s Council seats are being contested.
Plus, it’s a presidential year. The low-info, no-info Democrat voters will be out en masse in this benighted Commonwealth. What used to be a working-class electorate is now predominantly non-working-class, either by welfare or trust fund.
The other night, at a Trump event in Georgia, Tucker Carlson described the Democrat establishment as “weak men and unhappy women,” which sums up the current malaise quite accurately, not just nationally, but particularly at the State House.
But you don’t want to allow the ongoing catastrophe to get any worse, do you?
The first referendum question on the ballot would allow the state auditor to take a look at the Legislature’s books. That ain’t happening, obviously.
But the other day, the House speaker, a weak man by the name of Ron Mariano, was asked on the record if the hackerama will repeal the impending voters’ mandate for the Legislature to come clean, finally.
“We’ll see how big the margin is,” Mariano replied.
He was talking about Question 1, but that answer applies across the board to every contested election. You want to keep the margin down.
Last month, a dreadful hack from Cambridge named Rep. Marjorie Decker came within 41 votes of losing her Beacon Hill sinecure to a soyboy with they/them pronouns.
No doubt the hippie would have been even more appalling than Decker. But still, it would have been a bracing moment, to have one of the Beacon Hill lifers taken off the board by somebody off the street.
The hacks can’t tolerate losing any of “their” seats. Kelly Dooner, the Taunton city councilor, is running a great campaign for the open state Senate seat down there. Hack public-sector unions like the SEIU and the MTA are pouring thousands into her lackluster Democrat opponent’s coffers.
Same situation in the race for the open seat in the Plymouth and Barnstable Senate District. GOP Rep. Matt Muratore from Plymouth is being opposed by Rep. Dylan Fernandes, another weak man who dreams of someday succeeding Bill Keating in Congress as a rubber stamp for the Deep State.
Best to get rid of Fernandes sooner rather than later. But again, Fernandes is flush with cash from the hack unions and assorted Beautiful People.
With the presidential race dominating the news cycle even more than in most years, these local races are pretty much under the radar. But don’t underrate their importance.
It would be better to have six, or seven Republicans in the state Senate screaming about the waste, fraud and abuse than the current four.
At the very least, they’d be making more noise.
It doesn’t matter how much of a longshot somebody is. Take “Nurse” Dan Sullivan, who is running in the Cape and Islands Congressional District against the aforementioned Bill Keating, age 72.
Nurse Dan isn’t going to win, but so what? He’s got a radio debate against Keating next Tuesday night. Among the many questions Keating needs to answer is about his state pension of $115,879 a year.
This is on top of his Congressional salary of $175,000 a year. What did Barack Obama once say?
“At some point, a person has made enough money.”
How much is enough for Bill Keating? Askin’ for… Barack Obama.
Go down the ballot. You know who you’re voting for in the presidential and Senate races. You probably have a pretty good idea how to vote on the five referendum questions – Yes on 1 (sorry, weak man Mariano) and No on the other four.
Most likely on your ballot you’ll see a lot of fights where the Democrat is unopposed. For God’s sake, blank those races – a vote would only encourage them.
But if there is a Republican on the ballot, throw him or her a vote. Maybe you never heard of them, or they’re not your cup of tea. Still, there’s something to the theory of voting for the lesser of two evils.
If you want a list of the Republicans on the ballot, go to massgop.com and click on “Our Candidates.”
In these final days, I’m going to try to have some of these Republicans on my radio show. I hope some of them can win, and you should too. They’re putting up with a lot of crap that most of us have no patience for. It’s the least we can do for them.
Today, I’m planning to have “Nurse Dan” on my show at 4:33. Before you dismiss him or any of the other Republicans as hopeless candidates, consider the questions on Nurse Dan’s campaign website:
“Are you satisfied with single-party dominance in Massachusetts?”
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
“If not, then do you have a choice?”
In most races, sadly, no you don’t have a choice, not in Massachusetts. But if you do, don’t waste it. Send them a message. Keep the margins down.