When John Kerry was running for president in 2004, there were some in Massachusetts who thought he just might win. In order to prevent republican Governor Mitt Romney from appointing a republican to replace him, the veto-proof, democrat majority in the legislature changed the law. The governor would be stripped of his power of appointment and a special election would be held.

If the democrats had just left the law alone, or changed it back, then the current democrat governor of Massachusetts could have simply appointed a democrat to replace the late Ted Kennedy and said replacement could have served until the general election in November, thereby preserving the 60- vote super majority in the senate.

Instead, Massachusetts is sending a republican to the US Sentat for the first time since 1972, all because the democrats wanted to make sure that such a thing couldn’t happen.

What goes around, comes around.

Roxanna Moser