"Calter opposes appointing Kennedy replacement. " What's up with this guy?

[wisteria]

Halifax - Rep. Tom Calter, D-Kingston, will not support a request by the late senator to consider a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint an interim senator until a new senator is elected in January.

“I understand the argument that we need a temporary placeholder, there is a seat available and we need two voices in the senate engaging in the health care debate. I get that,” Calter said. “But with all due respect to the late senator, we’ve been without two voices in the Senate for almost 15 months.”

and

“In the past couple of days I reached this place. I know there is so much more to do with the federal government. We need a health care policy. We need an immigration policy, we need an education policy, and climate control policy, and we need both senators to actively engage in this debate. For those reasons it was a very difficult decision.”

http://www.wickedlocal.com/kingston/news/x560173996/Calter-opposes-appointing-Kennedy-replacement

Does he represent a rare repub district in Mass. and is afraid of losing an election?

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1. Taytay is the expert here, but

from my not-as-knowledgeable perspective, it feels to me anti-Deval, MA inside-baseball petty politics, emanating mostly from the legislature. As I remember, Therese Murray (D, head of the state senate) also opposed this initially, but lately has (??) softened a bit (?).

That remark about being "without two voices in the Senate for almost 15 months" was particularly nasty. To me (not knowing anything else about this guy), that remark alone puts him in the category of creep. Yuck.

[MH1]

2. What a jerk

"without two voices in the Senate for almost 15 months." ??? WTF?

[Inuca]

3. Graduated at the top

of his sensitivity training class.

[wisteria]

4. For sure he did-not. LOL. n/t