What is Kerry Healey Murphy up to these days?
I happened to hear her while switching stations. She was talking to Michael Graham about income tax repeal and (I think) encouraging people to vote for income tax repeal even though it also seemed that she did not acutally think that it was at all possible to deliver esentail state services without the revenue from the income tax. I’m not sure how she reconciles these positions
They then went on to discuss the Mittster’s VP prospects with Michael Graham mentioning any number of high offices as posts that Kerry Healey may someday hold.
Anyway, does she have any job now that the Romney campaign is over?
Please share widely!
After the citizens of MA voted for this power, we had a successful vote for Proposition 2-1/2. But since then there have been successful votes by the citizens and the legislature did NOT implement these propositions.
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p>So, what is the law and does a successful referendum vote mean it will definitely become law (like the tax vote if it happens)?
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One question not answered is, are laws passed by citizen petition in an “untouchable” category, meaning they can never be repealed by the legislature? Or can the legislature change or repeal them after a certain amount of time? Or can they be circumvented? There is no law that would prevent the state legislature from, for example, increasing the sales tax to 8-10%, is there?
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p>What happens if there are two laws that pass, but are contradictory? How about pushing an “eliminate the income tax” law along with a “cut no services” law? What would happen then (note: this sentiment exists at a local level, where people view elimination of services such as tax-pickup as a circumvention of Proposition 2.5, meaning that you can neither increase revenues or cut services – doesn’t make sense).
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p>I’m not so sure I like the citizen petition law. We elect legislators to become “experts” at governance, understanding nuances that most people refuse to learn. And then we pass laws that are designed to be populist, catering to uninformed voters, hiding true consequences.
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p>I would not call Proposition 2.5 a successful law overall. Look at what has happened since then — unconstrained growth in towns that had the ability to do so (to pick up the extra tax revenue), decreased in services in older, poorer communities, resulting in higher crime and worse educational systems, and anti-growth sentiment nearly everywhere else, causing a dramatic increase in the cost of housing, pushing younger people out of the state.
are exactly the same as any other law: they are binding and go into effect shortly after they are passed at the ballot, but they can be modified, or repealed, by the legislature.
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p>So, yes, if the income tax repeal passes, the income tax will be repealed. But the legislature could swiftly re-impose it.
seems to be that tax-cut referendums (when successful) are the Will of the People and the Voice of God.
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p>Meanwhile other plebiscites, such as the local-aid referendum of 1990, are ignored and forgotten.
Note the following language lifted from a portion of the 48th amendment to the MA Constitution:
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p>VI. Conflicting and Alternative Measures.
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p>”If in any judicial proceeding, provisions of constitutional amendments or of laws approved by the people at the same election are held to be in conflict, then the provisions contained in the measure that received the largest number of affirmative votes at such election shall govern.
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p>”A constitutional amendment approved at any election shall govern any law approved at the same election.
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p>”The general court, by resolution passed as hereinbefore set forth, may provide for grouping and designating upon the ballot as conflicting measures or as alternative measures, only one of which is to be adopted, any two or more proposed constitutional amendments or laws which have been or may be passed or qualified for submission to the people at any one election: provided, that a proposed constitutional amendment and a proposed law shall not be so grouped, and that the ballot shall afford an opportunity to the voter to vote for each of the measures or for only one of the measures, as may be provided in said resolution, or against each of the measures so grouped as conflicting or as alternative. In case more than one of the measures so grouped shall receive the vote required for its approval as herein provided, only that one for which the largest affirmative vote was cast shall be deemed to be approved.”
Regarding ballot initiatives what pissed me off was this.
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p>Kerry Healey said that Massachusetts needed a direct to the ballot initiative petition system. Like California I guess–you collect enough voter signatures and the sigs are verified by the Sec of State and it goes directly to the people.
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p>But Michael Graham used the Tax Roll Back petition which was voted on by the people as analogous to the anti-gay marriage petition which never made it to the people but was killed by legislature in the second con con.
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p>Typical conservatives preying on the ignorance of “the people” regarding complex rules of government. Shame on both of them.
It is rumored in the State House and among your “friends” that if you had become Governor that your husband’s company, AMG in Prides Crossing, http://www.amg.com/ir/biograph…
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p>would have received the state pensions to “manage.” Is this true? That would explain alot as to why Sean Healey gave Kerry Healey millions to fund her campaign.
was Darrell Crate, the Chairman of the Republican Party during the Romney administration and why other party officials also worked for AMG.
And I’ve heard rumors that if Obama is elected president he’ll name the Koran the National book and opium poppy the national flower. Rumor mongering before election is a devious strategy; rumor mongering after the election is simply pointless.
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p>I wish you’d called in too:
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p>You: “It is rumored in the State House and among your ‘friends’ that if you had become Governor that your husband’s company, AMG in Prides Crossing would manage the pension funds.
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p>Healey: No, that’s untrue.
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p>You: Well…well…YOU LOST!
from her “friends” and let her know that we have our eyes on Sean. Who by the way took a very large tax break to develop “undevelopable” land in that very run down Prides Crossing. He later gave the money back when “the rumors” started. http://www.boston.com/news/loc…
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p>I guess another thing that would have slipped the mind of Darrell Crate who lives in the same neighborhood and shood have known better.
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Healey: No that’s untrue.
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Healey: No, not any longer since it was suggested on BGM.
LOL