Rep. Emile Goguen Will Serve another Eleven Months
Plenty of Time Left to Remove Judge Marshall
By MassNews Staff  
              Even though Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) announced over the weekend that he will be retiring at the end of this term, that will not occur for another eleven months --- at the end of 2006. Therefore, Judge Margaret Marshall has no cause for celebration.
           The news of Goguen’s retirement was apparently reported to every newspaper and radio station in the state by A.P. inasmuch as radio station WBZ reported it with its 50,000 watts yesterday at five in the morning.
              Neither the Boston Globe, the Herald nor any of the other Massachusetts media reported anything in their print newspapers or on the Internet that we were able to discover.
              Both the Globe and the Herald are censoring news about Rep. Goguen because he is actively working to Remove Judge Marshall along with the three Associate Justices who signed her illegal ruling.
              The three Associate Justices who refused to sign Marshall's ruling are passionate that she is violating the state Constitution which she has taken an oath to uphold. When she spoke to the state's "Gay & Lesbian Bar Association" in 1999 and promised to approve a lawsuit for gay marriage if they brought one in this state, she also cited the law from her native South Africa with approval. In her ruling in 2003 which imposed gay marriage upon the state, she cited the law of South Africa, not Massachusetts, as precedent for her ruling. Judge Marshall did not come to this country until she was 26-years-old.

Goguen Assures MassNews that He Will Not be Leaving until the End of 2006
            After hearing the WBZ report yesterday morning, we questioned Rep. Goguen.
              Had he changed his mind? Was he leaving the legislature immediately because of health reasons? He assured us he has never felt better, nor been more popular throughout his district nor the rest of the state.
             He emphasized that he has worked with Judge Marshall for years because he has been a member of the Committee which approves her budgets. He was surprised and disappointed when she wrote her illegal opinion on gay marriage.
            He also has had good relations with the gay community in Fitchburg and believes they must be protected the same as other citizens, but he does not believe the state should do anything to encourage anyone, particularly teenagers, to follow that unhealthy life.