2008 Election: Going All-In Edition
It always seems like a good idea to make some predictions surrounding a big election day if for no other reason than to piss people off one last time before the big day. I’m sticking with state issues this year as national politics couldn’t get any less interesting. The presidential race in particular has proven itself more sitcom than future of the free world.
So lets start at the bottom with the Massachusetts ballot questions.
Question One: State Personal Income Tax
This proposed law would reduce the state personal income tax rate to 2.65% for all categories of taxable income for the tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and would eliminate the tax for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2010. The personal income tax applies to income received or gain realized by individuals and married couples, by estates of deceased persons, by certain trustees [...]
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More runners than the NYC Marathon
Yesterdays T&G story about State Rep Bob Spellane by Shaun Sutner, which was ripe with details but not a single factual accusation of wrongdoing, has opened up the predictable floodgates of potential write-in challengers to what is perceived as a vulnerable seat.
So far I’ve been told the following people are definitely probably pretty sure they’re running a two week sticker campaign for the Thirteenth Worcester seat:
• Everyone who has played baseball at Jesse Burkett Little League since 1970
• Everyone who has ever held a sign, for any political candidate, in Newton Sq
• 50% of City of Worcester employees living in Paxton
• Anyone under 35 with a Facebook page
• Everyone who has threatened to run against Spellane in the past but bailed
• Bill Coleman
What’s interesting is if you count all the people planning sticker campaigns and divide up their bases, they still loose in a 52 way race against Spellane since [...]
Original post by Brendan