MRPFDDDPR

Our Press Release Today...

Boston, MA - The Massachusetts Republican Party today announced the creation of a formula to calculate what the actual size of the pay raise for the DiMasi Democrats should be.

MassGOP Communications Director Barney Keller said, “While the DiMasi Democrats may think they deserve a pay raise, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate the amount they should get. All anyone has to do is take into account several variables, and then multiply that number by the amount of property tax relief that Deval Patrick has delivered to the people of Massachusetts. No matter how we calculated it, our analysis concluded that the amount of the raise should be exactly zero.”

The Massachusetts Republican Party’s formula for determining the DiMasi Democrats Pay Raise (MRPFDDDPR)

1. The amount of State Senators forced to resign in 2008 = 2
2. Multiply by the amount Governor Patrick pays Massachusetts for the Cadillac: 2 x 543 = 1086
3. Add the increase in the unemployed under the Democrats failed economic agenda: 1086 + 42,297 = 43,383
4. Divide by the number of counts in the indictment against DiMasi friend Richard Vitale: 43,383 / 7 = 6198
5. Take Transportation Secretary Jim “Big Dig” Aloisi’s salary, and divide it by the result of Step 4: 150,000 / 6198 = 24
6. Add the amount of money raised by State Treasurer Tim Cahill for his potential primary challenge against Governor Patrick: 24 + 145,000 = 145,024
7. Multiply that by the amount of money Governor Patrick made as a member of the board of Subprime lender Ameriquest: 145,024 x 360,000 = 52,208,640,000
8. Divide by the amount of Governor Patrick’s book deal: 52,208,640,000 / 1,350,000 = 38673
9. Add $657,000,000 in new taxes last year: 657,000,000 + 38673 = 657,038,673
10. Multiply that number by the amount of property tax relief given to the people of Massachusetts, as promised* by Candidate Deval Patrick: 657,038,673 x 0 = 0
    

Final Suggested MRPFDDDPR Pay Raise = $0.00

*"I believe a rational revenue structure, sensible tax policy and fair distribution of state resources to cities and towns – so that property taxes can be lowered and kept low – are essential elements of a true partnership between state and local government" (Deval Patrick – ‘Moving Massachusetts Forward’ p. 36)

Sal To Speak?

Speaker Sal said he would soon talk about the ethics investigations. Watch the video here. Apparently, Sal can't talk to the media without an appointment.

Vitale finally registers as a lobbyist. He said previously that he was paid to be a "strategist" on behalf of the ticket brokers. Looks like his "strategy" is to become an official lobbyist.

Peter Tokildsen On News Night

Republican Party Chair Peter Torkildsen was on Newsnight with Jim Braude on NECN last night, discussing our Press Conference from yesterday and the continuing ethics and civil rights violations of the Democrat Party.

Part 1: Click Here

Part 2: Click Here

This Is Getting Out Of Hand

Again?

Boston Globe reports here

"Just months after House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi killed a bill that was designed to block a controversial liquefied natural gas project from being built on 73 acres in Fall River, the landowner, Jay Cashman, sold the property to the terminal developers and made a $14.2 million profit, according to a Globe review of real estate and legislative records."

'Relationships, money, and influence is what it is all about,' said state Representative David B. Sullivan, a Fall River Democrat who, along with other local officials, has strongly opposed the LNG terminal. He said the personal connections between DiMasi and Cashman tainted the terminal legislation: 'It smells bad.' "

Ever see the movie Groundhog Day?

Today, we are taking some action. More to come.

3 Ethics Strikes

Speaker Sal and his Beacon Hill Democrats are sure doing a great job ensuring the ethics commission is on their toes.   I wonder if the ethics commission is getting overtime now?

Boston Globe reports.

Patrick Adds More $

From the State House News Service:

The $267.6 million supplemental spending plan includes $25.5 million for welfare caseload growth, $17.6 million for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and $13.1 million for unanticipated snow and ice removal.

The package adds to current fiscal year spending, and was filed within hours of the House Ways and Means Committee release of what Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has described as a "conservative" budget with few expansions, a claim blasted by Republican Party officials who ripped the "Patrick-DiMasi" plans as irresponsibly taxing and spending.

More Golf?

From the Boston Globe

"DiMasi has come under fire himself and is the subject of an ethics complaint filed by the state Republican Party for playing golf in Florida with a top Suffolk Downs executive, Joseph O'Donnell, while the track was vying for a casino. DiMasi has said that he did nothing wrong and that, in fact, he should be lauded for turning down a golf invitation from casino mogul Donald Trump."

Nice deflection Sal. Instead of acknowledging the two exclusive golf resort outings in Florida (worth well over the legal limit of $50), you focus on the one that you happened to turn down.