The AUDIT is DEAD in MASSACHUSETTS H. 5469
As expected the "lawmakers" on Beacon Hill just bent over 72% of the voters in Massachusetts and without lube..
well you know..
What is sad is that they have NO FEAR of being removed from office...
SAD..
and
PATHETIC
#mapoli
Here's a reason @EdMarkey is scared to debate.
He’s been in office for 53 years. He’s never had a private sector job except driving an Ice Cream truck during the summer while in college.
He’s voted to raise his own salary at least SIX times.
In 1989, he voted for a nearly 40% pay increase in a single vote - boosting his salary from $89,500 to $125,000.
Today, members of Congress earn $174,000 per year. That's more than three times the median household income in Massachusetts.
Markey has never missed a paycheck. Never gone without. Members of Congress are the only people on the planet who get paid to not do their job.
In the early 1990s Markey bounced 92 checks totaling over $47,000. He didn’t have to pay a single dollar in insufficient funds fees. He was a Member of Congress so the bank paid off his bounced checks.
In 2008, he returned the favor voting to bail the banks out for all the bounced checks they wrote.
He bailed out Wall Street Bankers. Yet, he's been campaigning for decades as a champion of working people.
As an attorney, for 30 years I've represented working families - people with mesothelioma, asbestos poisoning, workplace injuries - fighting against the very corporations that treat them as expendable. I know what it looks like when powerful institutions take care of themselves at everyone else's expense.
Below is what a career politician looks like. Someone who votes himself multiple pay raises, while Massachusetts families face the highest energy costs in America, most expensive housing market in the country, highest childcare costs in the nation, and grocery bills they can barely afford.
He got pay raises. You got the tab.
It's time to send a citizen - one of us - not a career politician - to the U.S. Senate.
#mapoli #MASen #Deaton
"I'm so deeply disturbed by what I'm witnessing in the State House. I just got word that the House of Representatives is getting ready to pass a bill into law that essentially negates everything that you voted for in the 2024 ballot question to have my office conduct an audit of the legislator and have some independent oversight." - Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio @DianaDiZoglio@massauditor
The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates met yesterday to discuss an ordinance aimed at further restricting ICE operations on Cape Cod.
This man said what millions of Americans are thinking but are too afraid to say out loud:
“I am not an uncompassionate individual. But my generosity has been abused, and I am sick of it! I am sick of being treated as an indentured servant to foreign nationals in my country and in my community. And I don't give a damn whose feelings that hurts.”
There was a whole lot of pear-clutching afterward.
@HAD_ENOUGH_22@mrp035@Dan142160151137@TownofDennis@Yarmouth_MA@CapeCodGov@BarnstableMA@EROBoston@DHSgov@RealTomHoman
James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”
We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.
The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.
If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.
Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.
.@MassAGO sent a letter “on behalf of @RonMariano” to the SJC asking to dismiss our lawsuit regarding the audit of the Legislature. Can’t make it up. The AG still claims she supports the audit. Please believe your own eyes. Her office is representing the Speaker, not us. #mapoli