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Subscribe to RSSUpdated, Monday 1/28 at 3:10 pm ET: Massachusetts officials expect Sen. John Kerry's resignation letter Tuesday after he is confirmed to be secretary of state, as expected.
If he is confirmed and the letter of resignation is received tomorrow, state elections officials will set the date of the special election to replace Kerry as June 25th with a primary on April 30th, said Brian McNiff, spokesman for the Massachusetts Secretary of State Elections Division.
Kerry's resignation is expected to be effective Friday. But state law indicates that the date needs to be set not from the effective date of the resignation, but from the date it is received, McNiff said.
Gov. Deval Patrick (D) said Monday he would appoint a temporary replacement Wednesday.
"If the senate votes tomorrow, and the Senator is confirmed and he submits his resignation tomorrow, then I expect to make the announcement on Wednesday," Patrick said earlier Monday, according to Patrick's office.
Patrick added that he has "pretty much" made a final decision, but didn't indicate who it would be.
"I told you we’re going to have someone that I am convinced will be a wise steward of the interest of the people of the Commonwealth while we wait for the people to elect a senator in a special election," Patrick said. "And I continue to believe that the main event is the special election."
Ex-Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has publicly expressed interest in becoming the temporary senator, but it's not clear that he is the pick.
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Buff you must have never passed 7th grade because your goof ass mentality is showing.
Isn't it nice to hate people you could never like? Ah yes the Republican way. If they are different shoot them. (Put down your guns and step away from the humans!)
Good Night Boring myself to death here!
I'd like to see Barney in the Senate. Maybe he could teach some of them what being a person who doesn't give a whit what anyone thinks is really like. After all, he got married while in the House, walked away from an inteview on CNBC, served as the first openly gay legislator. He'd be good as interim Senator.
As for Scott Brown, seems he got beat running for another term. What the hell makes anyone think he'd win this time. Frankly speaking, he's about as middle-of-the-road as a toad in a hole.
Someone will run for the seat and I wouldn't mind seeing Barney get the seat until the full term was out. It'd be fun watching Mitch McConnell's reaction. Two openly gay Senators. Just think of all the TPer's holding their breath until they turned blue.
And, incidentally, my brother who lives in North Dakota is straight but definitely voted for a gay woman, who won, for Senate. He dislikes Republicans even more than I do, and that says a lot.
I bet they would hold their breath!! They don't realize that they can't catch gay.
JOHN KERRY???? I thought he was dead.....wow!! how old are these mummies?
So,.. who's scotty going to lose to this time???
Barney frank just go away...... Spend some time with your new husband....
Bqhatevwr
It is the right and duty of every governor to appoint an interim senator when one leaves. Mass. is a solid blue state with a democrat governor. He will and should appoint a democrat. If the governor of a red state appointed a democrat the public would be hysterical. It is the way this system works and it is the way it should work. Obviously, democrats and republicans don't agree about much right now. Neither is particularly correct because there have been many liberal governments that have failed and many conservative governments that have failed. Primarily because they govern human beings that are not perfect. How anyone can be sanctimonious over this crap is beyond me. The only thing I can think of is that they know little history and refuse to be swayed by any facts they don't agree with.
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I too have a problem with granting citizenship to someone who came here illegally. Having said that, the reason they come is for opportunity. The reason companies hire them is because they can pay whatever they want and are not subject to any labor laws. It is a combination that is overwhelming. I am open to either side that has a sensible solution. If companies had to follow labor laws with undocumented workers then U. S. citizens could compete for those jobs if they wanted to. I understand the immigrants have stopped coming in becaused we bankrupted ourselves by fighting two unpaid for wars and deregulating the financial markets. I least we taught them about illegal immigration. Now they can't do any better here than at home.
Barney Frank said he would enjoy holding on to John Kerry's seat
Remember righties...
Massachusetts only elected Scott Brown because of a low-voter turnout...and many democrats and Indies learned their lesson from the folly of those 2010 elections, since Tea Party whack-os tend to come out of the wood work if we're not vigilant.
Brown, or any GOP candidate will have a much harder climb this time around.
Keep in mind the northeast, most big metro areas, and the west coast reviles much of the GOP and their platform of willful ignorance, bigotry and fake math, and their low-information electoral base who they gin-up with lies and whipped-up hatred to vote them in every time. Given what so-called conservatives now stand for, they don't stand a chance in places like Mass unless they purge themselves of their intransigent idiocy.
The Democrats and moderates prefer their political leaders without allegiances to the idiocy of creationists, anti-science deniers, narrow-minded bigots, Jesus freaks, white men with women-control issues, trickle-down economic BS'ers who think tax cuts for Romney and Paris Hilton will lead to 'job creation' and those who believe every conspiracy theory and fake rant on Fox 'news'.