no surprise last night...so back to the status quo

It remains to be seen if the dark blue status will make any difference in our community for the next 2 years years but we can hope.

The best news of the night comes from Bob DeLeo's home town of Winthrope where 2 non binding questions were asked and both won. Not that DeLeo could care about this but he may want to pay some attention for the next 2 years he will be controlling what gets to a House floor vote and what does not. So many things like health care, education and cell phone use while driving have been ignored. The Globe did a nice piece on the outcome:

According to results posted to the town’s website Tuesday night, the majority of voters in his hometown of Winthrop and the portion of Revere he represents voted in favor of a pair of nonbinding questions intended to specifically needle DeLeo, who has represented the seaside communities as a state representative since 1991.
One question called for pushing the state representative from the district to support repealing a $45,000 increase in annual compensation for the speaker, prohibiting “elected officials and their senior staff from engaging in any lobbying activity for five years once they leave office,” and “a rule that no member shall hold, for more than eight consecutive years, the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives.”

That measure implicitly took aim at DeLeo for successfully pressing to erase the term limits for his speaker ship in 2015; to hike his own total yearly pay by about 50 percent in 2017; and for presiding over a Legislature where lawmakers and their aides routinely become lobbyists.

In Winthrop on Tuesday, more than 55 percent of the town’s 7,702 voters voted in favor of that measure. Thirty percent voted against it, while 14 percent left their ballots blank.
The other ballot question intended to tweak DeLeo asked voters if the district’s state representative should take action on global warming. Specifically, it asks if the legislator “be instructed to vote in favor of the global warming solutions implementation act which would require the state to create a clean energy road map for meeting 2050 emissions limits” set by a 2008 piece of state legislation.
The majority of Winthrop voters cast their ballots in favor of that nonbinding measure, as well, with 61 percent voting yes, just under 25 percent voting no, and 13 percent leaving the question blank.


The majority of voters in the parts of Revere that DeLeo represents also voted in favor of the two measures, according to the city’s Election Commission, with 65 percent of the 5,462 voters voting in favor of the climate change initiative and 57 percent of voters voting in favor of the other measure.