{"id":1188,"date":"2009-09-17T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2009-09-17T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:44:57","slug":"recreating_the_law_to_suit_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Recreating The Law To Suit Your Current Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view\/20090917house_gives_initial_ok_to_kennedy_succession_bill\/srvc=home&amp;position=6\">Boston Herald<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting today that the Massachusetts House of Representatives has voted 97-58 in favor of allowing Governor Deval Patrick appoint someone to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat until a special election is held in January.&nbsp; The bill still has to be voted&nbsp;on in the Senate.&nbsp; This legislative change was suggested by Senator Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;House Speaker Robert DeLeo, a Democrat, said the change is needed to ensure Massachusetts continues to be represented by two senators until voters can choose a replacement during a Jan. 19 special election.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The law was changed in 2004 (also at the urging of Senator Kennedy) because the state had a Republican governor and the Democrats who run the state did not want a Republican Governor making the choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald&nbsp;is reporting today that the Massachusetts House of Representatives has voted 97-58 in favor of allowing Governor Deval Patrick appoint someone to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat until a special election is held in January.&nbsp; The bill still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}