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.
very interesting but what impact does this have on us here in Framingham? Can we put a non-binding question on the ballot to make Robinson, Lewis, and Gentile support work on the issue of climate change? I think they all do that already though
ReplyDeleteNo surprises in Framingham, but a few nationally and those could impact all of us. They already have, with Sessions being gone and the new guy being someone who already says Mueller's investigation should be reigned in. We are in a dark period in our history here we all need to pay attention
ReplyDeletewe can do the same here in Framingham on a wide variety of subjects. I've done 3 myself since 2000. Do they make any real change...they should. But they are non binding and the elected know that.
ReplyDeleteI just want to see what our new rep is going to do and what committee she will be on and what bills that Chris Walsh championed she will re-submit.