Is going to run all the decent, law abiding people out of Mass!! Making it an even bigger haven for scumbags than it already is!! My bags are packed N.H. here I come.
And it has NOTHING to do with him being BLACK!!!! (Before all the racist monkey's start chiming in!!) He's the Mass version of Bill Clinton and that's just enough to make me puke!!
And if you want to see one more reason that this state is probably the biggest joke out of the 50 read the bold text at the bottom of the page.
Democrat Patrick Is Voted Massachusetts's First Black Governor
Brian K. Sullivan Wed Nov 8, 1:36 AM ET
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Deval Patrick, a former Coca-Cola Co. executive, was elected the first black governor of Massachusetts and the first Democrat to take the office in 16 years.
Patrick, 50, who served as assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights under President Bill Clinton, won 55 percent of the vote to 36 percent for Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, 8 percent for independent convenience store owner Christy Mihos and 2 percent for Green Party candidate Grace Ross, with 71 percent of the precincts reporting.
``The people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back,'' Patrick said at a campaign rally last night in Boston's Hynes Convention Center.
The victory makes Patrick only the second black elected governor in U.S. history after Virginia Democrat Doug Wilder, who served from 1990 to 1994. Patrick's victory gives Democrats control of all elected branches of the state's government. Massachusetts voters also chose Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley to be the first female attorney general.
Along with Patrick, Tim Murray, 38, the mayor of Worcester the state's second-largest city, was elected lieutenant governor.More Diverse Massachusetts is 87 percent white. It is 6.8 percent black, about half of the national average of 12.8 percent, according to 2004 U.S. Census data. The state's largest city, Boston, was wracked with racial violence in the mid-1970s when court-ordered busing was used to desegregate schools there.
The city and the state are much more diverse than they were during the busing controversy, said Lawrence DiCara, 57, a Democratic Boston city councilor from 1972-1981. ``I think it is significant, but I don't think Deval has won as a black man,'' said DiCara, now an attorney with Nixon Peabody Llp in Boston.
Patrick's victory doesn't mean he will have his way with the Democratic-led state's Legislature, said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The Legislature has the ability to override the governor's wishes and pass any agenda it wants and ignore his vetoes.
``In this state there really isn't one center of power, there are three -- the Senate president, the speaker of the House and the governor,'' Watanabe said.
Big Dig Among the issues the new governor will have to face is same-sex marriage and fallout from problems at the ``Big Dig'' construction project that rerouted Interstate 93 into a tunnel under downtown Boston.
Same-sex marriage, though made legal in May 2004, faces a constitutional challenge now before the Legislature, and the Big Dig has been dogged by scandals and cost overruns that drove the price tag to $14.6 billion and led to the death of 38-year-old woman in July. Patrick said he supports same-sex marriage, which Healey opposes. In addition, Patrick said he wouldn't roll the state's 5.3 percent income tax rate back to 5 percent, which voters demanded in a 2000 referendum. Healey supported rolling back the tax, which the Legislature has refused to do.
Healey's two largest obstacles were negative ads attacking Patrick and Republican Governor Mitt Romney, with whom she has served for the past four years, David Paleologos, 48, director of Suffolk University's Political Research Center in Boston.
Out of State Romney, who will likely seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, has been perceived by many as disparaging Massachusetts in his out-of-state travels, Paleologos said.
His negatives and her negatives are at all-time highs,'' Paleologos said.
A Chicago native, Patrick came to Massachusetts as a youngster when he won a scholarship to Milton Academy, a prep school south of Boston. He went on to Harvard Law School. Moving to the corporate world, he was general counsel for Texaco Inc. and then Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft-drink maker.
Prior to Patrick's election, Edward Brooke III, now 87, was the highest elected black official to serve in Massachusetts. Brooke, a Republican, was the state's attorney general and a U.S. senator from 1967 to 1979.
Patrick's run was his first for public office and he depended on a grassroots and Web-based organization to raise money and drive his campaign. Coakley, 53, who was elected attorney general, has worked for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office since 1986. She prosecuted the Louise Woodward shaken-baby case and oversaw the prosecution of former Catholic priests in a sex-abuse scandal.
``I could not be more pleased or excited to serve as your next attorney general,'' Coakley said in her victory speech. ``The voters looked beyond race and gender.'' Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 74, also won a new six year- term. He was first elected in 1962 to finish out his brother John's term after he was elected President in 1960. Kennedy is the second-longest-serving U.S. senator after West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, 88, who was elected in 1958.
And it has NOTHING to do with him being BLACK!!!! (Before all the racist monkey's start chiming in!!) He's the Mass version of Bill Clinton and that's just enough to make me puke!!
And if you want to see one more reason that this state is probably the biggest joke out of the 50 read the bold text at the bottom of the page.
Democrat Patrick Is Voted Massachusetts's First Black Governor
Brian K. Sullivan Wed Nov 8, 1:36 AM ET
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Deval Patrick, a former Coca-Cola Co. executive, was elected the first black governor of Massachusetts and the first Democrat to take the office in 16 years.
Patrick, 50, who served as assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights under President Bill Clinton, won 55 percent of the vote to 36 percent for Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, 8 percent for independent convenience store owner Christy Mihos and 2 percent for Green Party candidate Grace Ross, with 71 percent of the precincts reporting.
``The people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back,'' Patrick said at a campaign rally last night in Boston's Hynes Convention Center.
The victory makes Patrick only the second black elected governor in U.S. history after Virginia Democrat Doug Wilder, who served from 1990 to 1994. Patrick's victory gives Democrats control of all elected branches of the state's government. Massachusetts voters also chose Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley to be the first female attorney general.
Along with Patrick, Tim Murray, 38, the mayor of Worcester the state's second-largest city, was elected lieutenant governor.More Diverse Massachusetts is 87 percent white. It is 6.8 percent black, about half of the national average of 12.8 percent, according to 2004 U.S. Census data. The state's largest city, Boston, was wracked with racial violence in the mid-1970s when court-ordered busing was used to desegregate schools there.
The city and the state are much more diverse than they were during the busing controversy, said Lawrence DiCara, 57, a Democratic Boston city councilor from 1972-1981. ``I think it is significant, but I don't think Deval has won as a black man,'' said DiCara, now an attorney with Nixon Peabody Llp in Boston.
Patrick's victory doesn't mean he will have his way with the Democratic-led state's Legislature, said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The Legislature has the ability to override the governor's wishes and pass any agenda it wants and ignore his vetoes.
``In this state there really isn't one center of power, there are three -- the Senate president, the speaker of the House and the governor,'' Watanabe said.
Big Dig Among the issues the new governor will have to face is same-sex marriage and fallout from problems at the ``Big Dig'' construction project that rerouted Interstate 93 into a tunnel under downtown Boston.
Same-sex marriage, though made legal in May 2004, faces a constitutional challenge now before the Legislature, and the Big Dig has been dogged by scandals and cost overruns that drove the price tag to $14.6 billion and led to the death of 38-year-old woman in July. Patrick said he supports same-sex marriage, which Healey opposes. In addition, Patrick said he wouldn't roll the state's 5.3 percent income tax rate back to 5 percent, which voters demanded in a 2000 referendum. Healey supported rolling back the tax, which the Legislature has refused to do.
Healey's two largest obstacles were negative ads attacking Patrick and Republican Governor Mitt Romney, with whom she has served for the past four years, David Paleologos, 48, director of Suffolk University's Political Research Center in Boston.
Out of State Romney, who will likely seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, has been perceived by many as disparaging Massachusetts in his out-of-state travels, Paleologos said.
His negatives and her negatives are at all-time highs,'' Paleologos said.
A Chicago native, Patrick came to Massachusetts as a youngster when he won a scholarship to Milton Academy, a prep school south of Boston. He went on to Harvard Law School. Moving to the corporate world, he was general counsel for Texaco Inc. and then Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft-drink maker.
Prior to Patrick's election, Edward Brooke III, now 87, was the highest elected black official to serve in Massachusetts. Brooke, a Republican, was the state's attorney general and a U.S. senator from 1967 to 1979.
Patrick's run was his first for public office and he depended on a grassroots and Web-based organization to raise money and drive his campaign. Coakley, 53, who was elected attorney general, has worked for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office since 1986. She prosecuted the Louise Woodward shaken-baby case and oversaw the prosecution of former Catholic priests in a sex-abuse scandal.
``I could not be more pleased or excited to serve as your next attorney general,'' Coakley said in her victory speech. ``The voters looked beyond race and gender.'' Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 74, also won a new six year- term. He was first elected in 1962 to finish out his brother John's term after he was elected President in 1960. Kennedy is the second-longest-serving U.S. senator after West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, 88, who was elected in 1958.
is exactly located on a map...But something tells me it's not in Mass
