Massachusetts Politics
Sometimes, this blogger addresses some local political issues in his home state.
Massachusetts is considering an Alimony Reform Bill –actually a divorce property reform bill.
That a judge would need a law to limit to his power to decide post divorce matrimonial incomes and property is a so-called modern reform. Most lawyers with divorce practice have no issue with lifetime alimony. They do have issue with codification of unique juridical circumstances which are judicially enforced, and contractually negotiated. Why would the law have to be re-iterated, codified? To stop undeserved or unnecessary alimony, or change property arrangements, one goes to court, and or one negotiates the changed circumstances with the counter party[ies]. Hence that bill provision would be unnecessary. And please, do not plead court congestion after what your group in this state are doing with the Probate Bench. Reform that and elect the judges and provide the money by tax or fees.
Second issue on the desk today is state Voting procedures for citizens, in which the requirement of presented identification is sought. That is also sufficiently addressed in the current state and federal law. The same pretenders at easing voting by easing the identification, also objected to physical description listings of voters on the local public voters record which are used by polling officials. Those same Voter Records are used by citizens, as with publicly available property valuations for inspection against fraud and corruption and to preserve fairness. The law now also provides for a legitimate challenge to a voter’s legitimacy with a vote protection, and a challenge to the legitimacy of voters registered in a precinct at risk of voting fraud. These actions exist in the law today for citizen and government policing, post-election or ahead of time.
It is again sad to see another non-enforced/non-enforceable law added to the “we don’t want to do it anyway” burden of executive law enforcement these days. The existing law is sufficient and balanced.
While I’m on a “chaw” .. Massachusetts may not admit illegally present aliens knowingly to state educational institutions whether at out of state rates or resident tuition rates. To do so amounts to Constitutional Contempt and a Federal criminal act. Let the gentleman so endorsing legislate for special visas or scholarships including from his own pocket which is better filled than the average injured taxpayer.
Not happy to do so, in Massachusetts, but this blogger encourages his fellow citizen to speak out and address when so moved and not to submit to silence by reason of employment threats and other economic intimidation.
posted by scotty of course at 10:55 AM
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