Democratic Leaders in House Tell Conflicting Stories
Stench at State House is Getting Worse

     Democratic leaders in the Mass. House of Representatives are telling conflicting stories about what’s happening to the Resolution to “Remove” the four rogue justices, which was filed by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) in late April.

     The leader of the Democrats in the House, Majority Leader Rep. Sal DiMasi, is saying that the measure “died in the House Rules Committee June 16.” But the ebullient Speaker Tom Finneran continues to give the impression that a vote will be held next week. All attempts to reach Rep. DiMasi yesterday were unsuccessful. His comments were reported in yesterday’s edition of Bay Windows.

     The leader of the Article 8 Alliance, Brian Camenker, says that private conversations with Committee members show that 9 of the 15 say they voted to send the measure to the floor for a vote.

     Majority Leader Admits They Broke the Law

     Camenker was amazed that DiMasi, a practicing trial lawyer, admitted to Bay Windows that he and the Committee had broken the law but he has no plans to correct it. Camenker said that the leaders certainly are brazen in their flouting of the state Constitution, just as they were in 2002.

     "It was actually a secret ballot, and I don't know who voted where, but I voted no," DiMasi told Bay Windows. However, secret meetings and secret ballots are both illegal inasmuch as all meetings and votes must be done in public.

     Bay Windows also wrote: “ Rep. Salvatore DiMasi, D-Boston, a member of the [rules] committee and a strong supporter of same-sex marriage, said the committee took a vote on whether to release the bill of address to the full House, and the vote was a seven to seven tie. As a result the bill will not be released from the committee.” Quotations in Bay Windows are always reported accurately, according to observers.

     Can’t Let Up When We’re Winning

     Camenker continues to urge that citizens not let up on hammering DiMasi and Finneran, as well as their own Reps. He noted that it was only such pressure directly from the people that has resulted in an imminent vote by the House, even though leaders such as DiMasi will continue to wiggle and squirm to avoid obeying the law. He says that DiMasi has forgotten what happened to former Senate President Tom Birmingham, who thought he was untouchable in 2002.

     Plenty of praise was heaped on DiMasi in the following quote from Arline Isaacson, who is paid by the Mass. Teachers Association but spends almost all her time lobbying for homosexual issues. Camenker is fond of saying she lives in the State House.

     The following is from Bay Windows. “Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, credited DiMasi with working to ensure the bill died in committee. ‘ Representative Sal DiMasi played a lead role in this as on so many other issues important to the gay community,’ said Isaacson. ‘He recognized that was a nonsensical piece of legislation and a totally inappropriate reaction to the court decision because our opponents didn't like it.’”

     The homosexual newspaper never revealed anything to its readers about the corruption displayed by Margaret Marshall and the other judges. It reported only that the supporters of Removal claimed that the four judges “overstepped their authority by ruling that same-sex couples were entitled to marry under the state constitution.”

     If Gov. Romney believes that he is making points with homosexuals by appearing to be “fair” and “in the middle of the issue,” a poll by Bay Windows shows that he is not popular with their readers. When asked whether Romney was "more or less supportive of gay rights than you expected,” 90% reported he has been less supportive.