If you suppose the whole lot goes swimmingly in Massachusetts, you in all probability shouldn’t be voting for GOP state Rep. Peter Durant of Spencer within the particular state Senate election subsequent week.
If, then again, you’re considerably lower than ecstatic about outrageous taxes, hordes of unlawful aliens on welfare, the Legislature’s impending gun seize, the fifth or sixth highest utility charges within the US, the utter breakdown of legislation and order and never simply in Boston both….
If any of this issues you, you may need to… ship them a message, as they used to say.
Next Tuesday, you are able to do simply that by voting for a Republican within the particular election to exchange a Democrat who resigned to seize a $117,000-a-year hack job from Gov. Maura Healey.
Only three of the 39 present members of the state Senate are Republicans. The GOP may actually caucus in a phone sales space. That’s how far the celebration has fallen, and it’s why a Republican victory may really imply one thing.
Rep. Peter Durant is working in a semi-rural central Massachusetts district that features one metropolis (Gardner), a few Worcester wards, and 19 cities, all however one in every of them in Worcester County.
A Durant victory can be the primary Republican takeaway of a Democrat seat since 2018. That’s how lengthy the celebration’s tailspin has been occurring.
Despite their iron grip on energy, the Democrats are pulling out all of the stops to defeat Durant. They need Massachusetts to be much more of a one-party state than it already is.
The Democrat candidate is one other state rep, a 33-year-old named Jonathan Zlotnick. He appears to be slightly a nonentity, however all that issues is that “D” after his identify.
By his marketing campaign contributors, ye shall know him, and you need to see the gathering of hacks who’ve ponied up huge time for Mr. Z.
First, Marty Meehan, the profession coat holder who’s now the $697,076-a-year president of hack-infested UMass. Ya suppose Marty may afford that $200 he despatched the Democrat?
Marty has an “assistant to the president” named David McDermott. He makes a mere $350,000 a 12 months. At ZooMass that is referred to as a beginning wage. McDermott gave $250.
More fascinating, although, is the $200 contribution Zlotnick pocketed even earlier than this present election, from one Ken Halloran. Does that identify ring a bell? Probably not, however preserve your eyes on this payroll patriot.
Halloran is the “partner” of Tara Healey, the youthful sister of Maura Healey. Partner – that’s how Tara is described within the obituary for Halloran’s mother, and within the pages of a neighborhood state-run media outlet, the Globe.
He was principally a state-paid lobbyist for the State Police in the course of the very moral period of Leigha Genduso, Troop E organized racketeering, tubby corrupt union boss Dana Pullman and a solid of dozens of different unspeakably corrupt troopers.
Halloran retired in January 2022, after it grew to become clear that the sister of his “partner” was going to be the following governor. He pocketed his $90,451-a-year pension.
Now he’s in a brand new lobbying agency with, amongst others, ex-Sen. Henri Rauschenbach, age 76. Republican Rauschenbach has a nickname – Kickenbach – from his corruption trial in 1995 on conflict-of-interest and conspiracy expenses. He beat the rap. It at all times helps to be tried by a Suffolk County jury.
Like all the opposite historic lobbyists I wrote about on Sunday, Kickenbach final gained an election within the twentieth century – in 1996.
But now Kickenbach resides giant, partnered up with the governor’s nearly brother-in-law. Ya suppose that connection helps whenever you’re soliciting enterprise on Beacon Hill?
It’s solely pure that Halloran can be funneling money to Rep. Peter Durant’s opponent. Democrats, you recognize.
Many of the traditional lobbyists I wrote about in my Sunday column need to preserve the celebration going. The state is imploding, however they’re getting filthy wealthy on their manner out the door.
Zlotnik’s lobbyist contributors embody all of the previous Boston glad-handers, with names like Joyce, Delaney, Malloy and Hickey. From the Worcester forgotten-but-not-gone brigade, he’s grabbed money from Joe Ricca and Paul Giorgio.
He’s additionally collected from many of the furthest-left state senators within the far, far left state Senate: Pat Jehlen, William Brownsberger, Susan Moran, Jason Lewis et al.
But the lobbyists’ showering of money to Zlotnik is probably the most telling. These slugs run the whole lot on Beacon Hill. As a bunch, they’re not terribly swift, however within the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man shall lead.
When they write one other billion-dollar clean verify for his or her bundlers and advocates and brothers-in-law, all of the lobbyists do is scrawl a number of phrases on the high of the laws:
“Notwithstanding any general or special order to the contrary….”
And that’s precisely the explanation there needs to be at the very least a handful of Republicans up there to yell: “Stop thief!”
Perusing the checklist of greed-crazed hacks who’re spending 1000’s to defeat Rep. Peter Durant, I preserve asking myself one query.
Is there a single ex-legislator over the age of 75 — indicted, convicted or in any other case — who isn’t driving off into the sundown pocketing a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} a 12 months from “lobbying” on the State House?
I simply got here throughout two extra of the erstwhile solons approaching the checkout counter yesterday.
One was an ex-state rep named Steve Karol. He final gained an election in 1992. Now, at age 75, he has a lobbying agency with a 78-year-old ex-state senator named W. Paul White. White’s identify most just lately appeared on the poll in 1996.
But when the Democrats blew the hack canine whistle, these two old-timers raised their snouts from the trough and got here hobbling again to the crime scene. Because they need to preserve the dumpster hearth that’s Massachusetts state authorities going.
It’s good for enterprise – monkey enterprise.
If you agree with all of the above tax-fattened Democrat millionaires that glad days are right here once more in Massachusetts, you need to undoubtedly not vote for Peter Durant within the particular state Senate election subsequent Tuesday.
Durant needs to be that man yelling, “Stop thief!”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”