Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Keller on the state of the GOP on Beacon Hill

HOW DO WE CURE STUPID?

TRUMP'S ECONOMIC POLICY STUPIDITY & TARIFFS ARE DESTROYING THE

ECONOMY...CREATING A BANANA REPUBLIC!

WE KNOW FROM THE SMOOT-HAWLEY ACT WHAT TARIFFS CAUSE....ARE

REPUBLICANS SPEAKING OUT?

MASSIVE DEBT CREATED BY MAGA GOP TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY HAVE

CREATED DEBT THAT YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WON'T LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO

PAY....WHERE ARE MASS GOP? BLABBERING NONSENSE!

During several times testifying on BEACON HILL or observing, some of these MASS GOP CLOWNS were juvenile in their childish conduct & theatrics.

If CONSTITUENTS took the time to watch the performances of these 'ELECTED OFFICIALS' it is doubtful they would be re-elected....but that's "R" voters failing to INFORM THEMSELVES.

3 newly elected MASS GOP BOOBS endorsed DESANTIS after he appointed

JOE LADAPO to protect FLORIDA'S PUBLIC HEALTH.

Too lazy to research ANYTHING, JOE LADAPO promoted, endorsed & appeared with the ALIEN SPERM DONOR DOCTOR.

The ORANGE TURD also promoted the ALIEN SPERM DOCTOR.

Trivial you think?

ARMIDILLOS are known to transmit LEPROSY.
People in FLORIDA who have not been exposed to ARMIDILLOS are contracting
LEPROSY. Is LEPROSY being spread by another species? Don't expect any protection.

FATTMAN et al VIOLATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS - THE ENTIRE FAMILY!
Yet MAGA GOP close their eyes & re-elect him?

Fattmans, AG reach settlement, agree to pay $192,000

‘No one can say we broke the law,” Sen. Fattman says

by Bruce MohlOctober 24, 2023

COMMONWEALTH BEACON

"R" voters are uninformed & gullible! Blindly voting for a 'PARTY' that no longer exists beyond LIES & PROPAGANDA. They don't even research the INCOMPETENT UNQUALIFIED CANDIDATES.

CARPETBAGGER & LIAR JOHN DEATON STOOD AT ONE OF THE CAPE COD

BRIDGES SURROUNDED BY BRAIN DEAD REPUBLICANS ENDORSING HIS LIES, & BLAMED SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN FOR THE LACK OF FUNDING....

HUH? IF REPUBLICAN VOTERS WEREN'T TOO LAZY TO LOOK IT UP, THEY

MIGHT HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT TRUMP SLASHED FUNDING FROM THE

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' BUDGET - THEY OWN THE BRIDGES!

LAZY REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR THIS CARPETBAGGING LIAR AS WELL AS THOSE

WHO STOOD WITH HIM? THERE WERE TOO MANY LIES THAT I POSTED AT THE TIME

TO FULLY EXPLAIN THE LAZINESS OF "R" VOTERS WHO BETRAY THE COMMONWEALTH VOTING FOR LIES.

MASS GOP POURED THOUSANDS INTO SUPPORTING DONNIE PALMER - JIM LYONS

WAS AWARE OF DONNIE PALMER'S BIGOTED POSTS....

State GOP poured thousands into Boston Council candidate’s campaign despite his anti-Asian messages

https://nextshark.com/gop-leaders-funded-racist-candidate-massachusetts

WHO SPOKE OUT?

REMINDER: MIDDLEBORO REPUBLICANS: YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

MIDDLEBORO REPUBLICANS: YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

MIDDLEBORO: YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

SENATOR

MIDDLEBORO:

EDWARD J. MARKEY 6244

KEVIN J. O'CONNOR 6803

STATEWIDE VOTE TOTALS:

MARKEY 2,289,599 66.5%

O'CONNOR 1,154,600 33.5%

I watched an interview with Mr. O'Connor in which he was unable to answer basic policy questions.

Massachusetts Republican Voter Registration is at a 70 year low because unqualified candidates are being promoted and supported.

MIDDLEBORO: YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

PLYMOUTH COUNTY TREASURER:

MIDDLEBORO:

THOMAS J. O'BRIEN 6411

CARINA LEEZA MOMPELAS 5503

COUNTY TOTALS:

THOMAS J. O'BRIEN 172,072 64%

CARINA LEEZA MOMPELAS 96,802 36%

CARINA LEEZA MOMPELAS is 24 years old, defeated when she ran for Mayor of Brockton, never held public office before

REPUBLICAN VOTER REGISTRATION IS AT A 70 YEAR LOW.

Voting for, supporting or electing unqualified candidates will not improve the PARTY and jeopardizes the future.

The PLYMOUTH COUNTY TREASURER is responsible for lots of retirees, lots of future retirees....

This is not a simple 'balance your checkbook' kinda job, bookkeeping or preparing tax returns.

Once upon a time, Middleboro's Braindead Republicans elected a man year after year after year...and he never figured out where Beacon Hill was, but he got his pension.

Fortunately, Middleboro was gerrymandered and blessed with 3 state reps.

Tom O'Brien was elected and boasted 100% attendance.

Tom O'Brien was elected at a time that PLYMOUTH desperately needed a new REGISTRY and Court House.

Anyone who attempted research at that time knew how overcrowded it was. Half of a year in the back hall, the rest of the year down stairs...and because it was so overcrowded, inadequate space for copy machines, books were on tables and title searchers waited to copy records....and if an attorney scheduled a closing, people were climbing over them....old parchment documents were on microfiche with all of the ups and downs so you needed at least 2 copies to make it readable.

I was researching an Indian Purchase during the Mass Bay Colony and it seems to me that the PROBATE RECORDS were on INDEX CARDS.

The records are now ON LINE and accessible.

There is space set aside for closings.

The OLD RECORDS have been put in books with newer technology that makes them readable.

Title searchers have their own offices.

There was a great deal of innovation that made the complex usable.

Her age simply highlights her lack of experience.

And I'm sorely disappointed at the vote in Middleboro that risked electing an unqualified candidate.

I've knocked on enough doors and heard "I'm a Republican! And vote only for Republicans" to understand that that attitude is folly!

MIDDLEBORO: YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

BILL KEATING 6428

HELEN BRADY 6112

MICHAEL MANLEY [COACH TEAM AMERICA] 358

Lovvorn is not the only Bay State Republican embracing fringe theories in the run-up to the election. Helen Brady, the Plymouth Republican running against Rep. Bill Keating, recently tweeted a medical study that has been cited by coronavirus conspiracy theorists, and confirmed her concern to POLITICO that the government could use a Covid-19 vaccine to insert medical information into a patient's skin. Conspiracy theories about the pandemic have derailed contact tracing efforts in other states, and further conspiracies about a vaccine could deter people from getting it once it becomes available.

LINK

REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL COURT

TWELFTH PLYMOUTH DISTRICT

[STATE REPRESENTATIVE]

KATHLEEN R. LANATRA 1209

SUMMER K. SCHMALING 1428

WHEN SUMMER K. SCHMALING SERVED ON THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SHE OPPOSED REPLACING 20 YEAR OLD SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS BECAUSE SHE SAID SCIENCE HADN'T CHANGED IN 20 YEARS.

PLYMOUTH COUNTY TREASURER:

14-year incumbent faces challenger WHO HAS NEVER HELD PUBLIC OFFICE in Plymouth County treasurer race

ONCE UPON A TIME, MIDDLEBORO ELECTED A REPUBLICAN OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER....YEAR AFTER YEAR ... EVEN THOUGH THAT REPUBLICAN NEVER MANAGED TO FIND BEACON HILL MORE THAN ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR.

BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS OF MIDDLEBORO REPUBLICANS' SUPPORT, THE REPUBLICAN EARNED A HEALTHY PENSION FOR WHICH MIDDLEBORO RECEIVED NO REPRESENTATION.

WHEN MIDDLEBORO WAS MERCIFULLY SPLIT, TOM O'BRIEN STEPPED FORWARD TO REPRESENT A PORTION OF MIDDLEBORO AND OTHER COMMUNITIES AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE CHALLENGES.

TOM O'BRIEN ADDRESSED THE CHALLENGE OF THE OVERWHELMED AND OVERCROWDED PLYMOUTH REGISTRY OF DEEDS AND COUNTY OFFICES, CREATING A STATE OF THE ART FACILITY WITH ONLINE ACCESS.

TOM O'BRIEN BOASTED 100% ATTENDANCE REPRESENTING HIS CONSTITUENTS.

HIS CURRENT REPUBICAN OPPONENT HAS NEVER HELD OFFICE, LOST ELECTION FOR MAYOR AND OFFERS NO LOCAL PARTICIPATION IN ANY ORGANIZATIONS.

IS THIS THE REPUBLICAN PATH TO SUCCESS? IF SO, THE MASS GOP IS DESTROYING ITSELF WITH CANDIDATES SUCH AS THIS.

REGISTER AND VOTE!

14-year incumbent faces challenger in Plymouth County treasurer race

By Wheeler Cowperthwaite The Patriot Ledger

Posted Oct 5, 2020

MIDDLEBORO REPUBLICANS RALLIED WITH NO FACE MASKS, INCLUDING NEIL ROSENTHAL.

CLICK ON THE LINK - LOTS OF PHOTOS OF MIDDLEBORO REPUBLICANS WITH NO FACE MASKS!

Photos: We Back the Blue rally held in Middleboro

The Middleborough Republican Town Committee held a We Back the Blue standout at the busy intersection of South M...

Mass. Republican Party explored whether it can use its own money to pay for a candidate’s legal fees

MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN VOTER REGISTRATION IS AT A 70 YEAR LOW BECAUSE OF THE INCOMPETENT, UNQUALIFIED CANDIDATES THE MASS GOP IS SUPPORTING, THE RACIST ROBOCALLS & ATTACK ADS AND THE LACK OF A COHERENT PLATFORM.

JIM LYONS SUPPORTED RACIST ROBOCALLS & UNTRUE ATTACK ADS AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT WHO UNSEATED HIM.

REPUBLICANS: IS IT TIME TO WAKE UP?

– “Mass. Republican Party explored whether it can use its own money to pay for a candidate’s legal fees,” by Matt Stout, Boston Globe: “The Massachusetts Republican Party, which has struggled mightily to raise cash in recent years, asked state campaign finance regulators last month if it can use its own money to pay attorney fees for a Republican candidate facing ‘legal actions’ brought by a state agency, according to documents made public late last week.”

The GOP’s request to Campbell’s office appeared to catch some party leaders off-guard. Patrick Crowley, the party’s treasurer, declined comment Friday, saying he was not aware of the advisory opinion, nor was he “the one who asked the question.”

Amy Carnevale, a member of the party’s 80-member state committee, said Lyons did not reference the request at its meeting on Wednesday when she asked about spending in its legal defense fund, which has not reported raising any funds since late 2018.

Such accounts are not required to publicly disclose how they spend funds. But Carnevale said Lyons disclosed at Wednesday’s meeting that the party used money from the fund to help pay for Helen Brady’s successful court challenge to appear on last year’s ballot in the Ninth Congressional District. (Brady went on to lose her race against Representative William Keating, the Democratic incumbent, by 25 points.) Lyons “did not mention that it was used to assist any other candidates,” Carnevale said.

HELEN BRADY is a QANON WHACK-A-DING!

NO ONE WITH A BRAIN WOULD SUPPORT HER OR VOTE FOR HER EXCEPT THE OBEDIENT REPUBLICAN VOTERS! THIS IS AN EMBARRASSMENT!

REPUBLICANS: IT'S TIME TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

This from POLITICO:

Helen Brady, the Plymouth Republican running against Rep. Bill Keating, recently tweeted a medical study that has been cited by coronavirus conspiracy theorists, and confirmed her concern to POLITICO that the government could use a Covid-19 vaccine to insert medical information into a patient's skin. Conspiracy theories about the pandemic have derailed contact tracing efforts in other states, and further conspiracies about a vaccine could deter people from getting it once it becomes available.

LINK

“I think it’s a surprise to most of us,” she said of the party’s request for an opinion from the Office of Campaign and Political Finance.

The party has struggled to raise funds since Lyons was elected chairman in early 2019. It had just $112,404 in its state fundraising account at the end of May and another $87,782 in a federal account as of the end of April, according to its most recent data filings. The $1.9 million the state party raised during 2019 and 2020 through its federal fundraising account was the lowest for a two-year cycle in more than a decade.

The party’s financial situation appears so dire, a group of former party leaders wrote in a letter Thursday, it has failed to raise enough to “even stage a reasonable convention, much less support candidates for office.”

State Representative Shawn Dooley, a state committee member who unsuccessfully challenged Lyons for the chairman role in January, said Lyons never informed the full state committee that the party was weighing whether it could spend money on someone else’s legal costs.

“It’s kind of a slap in the face,” the Norfolk Republican said. “With everyone that’s running, the fact that he’s [considering] using this money for one particular person, we’re having a hard enough time raising money as it is. The fact that he’s willing to do that is very troubling.”

Lyons has been under fire in recent weeks for not forcefully condemning Deborah Martell, an elected Republican leader who told a GOP congressional candidate she was “sickened” that he and his husband had adopted children together.

The incident has damaged Lyons’s standing in the party, with 29 of 30 Massachusetts House Republicans calling on him last week to speak out against Martell or resign. Still, at Wednesday’s meeting, there was no concerted effort to strip him of his leadership role, which would require a two-thirds vote of the committee. Lyons was reelected as chairman in January with 39 votes out of 75 cast, and he still has the support of much of the committee, fellow Republicans said.

JIM LYONS & The Massachusetts Republican Party

JIM LYONS and the Mass GOP are destroying themselves!

2 QANON candidates who have never held public office are running as REPUBLICANS and have made bizarre conspiracy theory statements and JIM LYONS has failed to condemn their ignorance.

A young woman who has never held public office was defeated in her run for mayor of Brockton, now running for Plymouth County Treasurer.

A Cape Cod rep, too ignorant to wear a FACE MASK, attended the GOLD STAR FAMILY event in DC, along with his daughters. A REPUBLICAN SUPER SPREADER!

There's far more, but you get the point.

And the candidate written about in the article below has never held public office and is too lazy to inform himself about issues and legislation.

There were racist ROBO CALLS made in the district and the attack ads in the article from the MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN PARTY are offensive and untrue.

"...Lyons did not return a message to discuss the race for his former seat.

Gus Bickford, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said the strident messaging from the Republican Party under Lyons, which embraces the over-the-top rhetoric leveled by Trump against his Democratic foes, does not strike him as a very effective way for the Massachusetts GOP, which claims only 35 of the 200 seats in the Legislature, to make inroads.

“If you are on a daily basis going to promote this person in the White House who lies every single day of his life and promotes racism, you’re putting an albatross around all your candidates’ necks,” said Bickford.

Nguyen called the attacks from the state party “appalling” and said attacks that equate her support for police reform to radical anarchy are spreading reckless misinformation that reduces complicated issues to sensational soundbites. “Most people would agree we do need accountability and do need better training so they can build trust among communities,” she said of her views on police reform...."

COMMONWEALTH BEACON

Comedy Central on Beacon Hill

by Jon Keller September 29,2025

For sheer comic fun, who needs Jimmy Kimmel when you’ve got Beacon Hill Republicans?

There were (unintended) laughs aplenty last week when Senate Phone Booth Caucus Leader Bruce Tarr emerged from a State House huddle with GOP officials brimming with fantasy confidence about the party’s chances in next year’s elections.

The Republicans, said Tarr, according to Sam Drysdale’s report in the State House News Service, want to run on their “traditional” brand, “the ability to manage state government efficiently and responsible and deliver on the things that are important to people’s lives.”

LOL! Pure comedy gold!

The GOP tradition Tarr wants to feature is ancient news as far as most Republicans are concerned, a regrettable spasm of RINO-fever before the Lord delivered Donald Trump on a golden escalator from Heaven. As Rick Pitino might put it: Bill Weld, Paul Cellucci, Mitt Romney and Charlie Baker aren’t walking through that door.

House Perpetual Minority Leader Brad Jones at least acknowledged the GOP dilemma: “Obviously the Democrats in the state want to talk more about national races, and not about [their] record here in Massachusetts,” he said.

But as much as GOP leaders might want to make the election about the migrant follies and other issues that don’t play so well for the Democrats, the 2024 election – like the Boston mayoral race and countless other contests across the country – will mostly be a referendum on Trump and what he’s in the process of doing to Massachusetts.

Like the defenestration of one of our crown jewels, the cutting-edge research at the UMass Chan Medical Center in Worcester. Their funding stream has been plunged into chaos by Trump-era policies in which web searches for the prefix “trans-“ result in cuts to completely non-woke research, and researchers are sent packing for overseas homes where they can develop new remedies for cancer and other diseases in peace.

Hundreds of layoffs are coming this fall, says Chancellor Michael Collins. “In the past, we could rely on federal support for research, and now great uncertainty has been raised as to whether or not that will continue. Grants would be funded and research that could change the course of history of disease would occur each and every day. And that’s now been brought into great question,” he says.

Which UMass Chan product does Trump world hate most? The Nobel Prizewinning RNA therapeutic work that led to Trump’s singular first-term achievement, the COVID vaccine? The search for cures for pediatric brain cancer and Lou Gehrig’s disease?

Or could it be yet another pitiful display of jaw-dropping hypocrisy and stupidity by an administration that claims to champion merit in college admissions but is poised to make research grants contingent on schools pledging allegiance to Trumpism?

As our economy withers and the job losses pile up over the coming year, Democrats will make sure voters know who to blame, if they even need any help. Of the many toxic brands the GOP has been busy associating with, Defenders of Disease might be the worst.

Well-meaning local Republicans who secretly hate Trump but are afraid to say so can try to pull the “Etch-A-Sketch” play Romney made famous, bolting to the center after their primary and hoping the independents have ADD. But for now, they look ridiculous playing pretend.

“Democrats are putting Band-aids on things and making it look fluffy,” said State GOP Finance Chair Jennifer Nassour after their molehill summit. “Republicans want solutions.”

Rimshot please! Don’t forget to tip your waiter!

Jon Keller

jon.p.keller@gmail.com

Jon Keller has been reporting and commenting on local politics since 1978. A graduate of Brandeis University, he worked in radio as a producer and talk-show host before moving into print journalism at The Tab newspapers and the Boston Phoenix. Freelance credits include the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Boston Magazine, the New Republic and the Washington Post. Since 1991 his "Keller At Large" commentaries and interviews have been a fixture on Boston TV, first on WLVI-TV and, since 2005, on WBZ-TV.... More by Jon Keller

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For sheer comic fun, who needs Jimmy Kimmel when you’ve got Beacon Hill Republicans?

LOL! Pure comedy gold!

But as much as GOP leaders might want to make the election about the migrant follies and other issues that don’t play so well for the Democrats, the 2024 election – like the Boston mayoral race and countless other contests across the country - will mostly be a referendum on Trump and what he’s in the process of doing to Massachusetts.

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FROM BEACON HILL

READYING FOR A SHUTDOWN: The heads of the executive branch were asked to help brace for a federal government shutdown and lay out plans in response to the possibility. – State House News Service

HIGHWAY SERVICE PLAZAS: Irish retailer Applegreen, which last week walked away from a proposal to redevelop highway service plazas, spent tens of thousands of dollars over the last year on lobbying. Communications between MassDOT and a consultant working for the company’s registered lobbyist were part of the losing bidder’s complaints about the contracting process. – Boston Herald

NEWS NEXT DOOR

FEDERAL WORKFORCE CUTS: Unions that represent the federal workers say the staffing cuts are creating backlogs. – MassLive

ZONING MORATORIUM: As the region faces a housing crisis, a member of the Barnstable Town Council wants a moratorium on construction in downtown Hyannis. – Cape Cod Times

SOMERVILLE ABDUCTION, CONT’D: Relatives and co-workers of the Somerville man abducted by masked ICE agents have set up a GoFundMe in order to help him get out of a Plymouth jail. – Universal Hub

‘CREATOR BRIEFINGS’: Sen. Elizabeth Warren has held private virtual briefings for social media influencers. – NBC

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: Nonprofit health providers are struggling with cuts to Medicaid and changes to a key prescription drug program. – Boston Globe

MARKET SATURATION? Boston cannabis regulators have put out a request for proposals for a research study into the potential market saturation of marijuana shops in the city. – Talking Joints Memo

IN MEMORIAM: Robert Barnett, the Washington attorney who represented Ted Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren, along with the Clintons and Bushes in book deals, has died. He was 79. – Associated Press

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