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The Worcester County Republican Club was founded in 1896 and has been active since, having as many as 4000 members in the 1950’s. Its mission is to advance the principles of the Republican Party and to help elect Republican candidates to public office throughout Worcester County in Massachusetts.
We all have seen the lack of accountability that pervades the legislature, and the excesses that result. We also know that the Democrats are mobilizing special interest groups to re-elect their party’s candidates. The WCRC aims to overcome this one-party grip on elected office, and restore balance and accountability back to the electorate.
The Worcester County Republicans blog is our newest outreach to Republicans across Central Mass.
Contributors include: Pilgrim in the Park, Kevin Kuros, Mark Worthington, Shari Worthington, and more.
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Hi,
Just wanted to let you know who’s spending union-member money on the golf course. Our ad running in today’s Washington Post points to yet another abuse that union members endure at the hands of their officials: spending member dues for entertainment. To read more about this exploitation visit our website at http://www.unionfacts.com
We’ve provided the HTML code for the ad here so it’s easy to post:
http://www.unionfacts.com/ads/downloads/print_countryclub.pdf
If you have any further questions contact Sarah Longwell at Longwell@unionfacts.com or 202-463-7106.
Best,
Marissa Williams
Center for Union Facts
Correspondence Coordinator
202-463-7106
Comment by Anonymous — June 15, 2006 @ 9:54 am
Worcester Voters PLease help operate the polling places on election days. The Election Commission is in need of poll workers on election day. Each poll has a Warden, a Clerk, and four Inspectors. Should you desire to become a poll worker, please call the Commission at (508) 799-1134. Poll workers are assigned by party affiliation. Training is required each election season for Wardens and Clerks. THe dates of this year’s elections:
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Email address of Commission is: elections@ci.worcester.ma.us
Must be a registered voter in Worcester!
Comment by JOhn Stewart — July 20, 2006 @ 9:29 pm
Worcester County Republicans, Here are three recent articles from just west of you — editorial meetings with the candidates. We’re awaiting the publishing of one with the Berkshire Eagle, the interview took place last week in Pittsfield.
I can get you a video of the 2002 Ken Chase vs Ed Markey debate, moderated by the Community News Corporation. It’s from the producer who taped it and gave it to an access station in that Congressional District. Mr. Chase voices the same views as in the articles below, but with Ed Markey as the primary cause. We feel it will be a clear representation of a possible Chase/Kennedy debate scenario. It runs one hour, no edits were made.
Call if you need any further assistance.
Mike Morrisey
Campaign Director
Kevin Scott for US Senate
Cell: 781-698-9469
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REPUBLICAN
GOP candidate blasts Kennedy
Kenneth G. Chase accused the senator of bearing some responsibility for American deaths in Iraq.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
By MICHAEL McAULIFFE
mmcauliffe@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD – Kenneth G. Chase, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, already is looking past the Sept. 19 primary, focusing on attempting to oust incumbent Edward M. Kennedy, who has served in the Senate since 1962.
During an editorial board meeting at The Republican yesterday, Chase said that Kennedy’s lack of action dating to the 1973 Arab oil embargo to wean America from its dependence on Middle Eastern oil proved critical to U.S. involvement in the first Gulf War in the 1990s.
He also said the senator bears substantial responsibility for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers during the war in Iraq.
“Forty-four years and he’s done nothing on Middle Eastern oil,” said Chase, who also contends Kennedy has had more power to solve the problem than any president from Richard Nixon to the current commander in chief, George W. Bush.
Chase was endorsed for his Senate run at the state Republican Party convention in April. He is being challenged in the primary by Kevin Scott, a former Democrat who also has served as a selectman in Wakefield.
Chase, 45, a Belmont resident, said the U.S. should address its energy needs in various ways, including wind-generated power, drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a “drastic increase in domestically produced nuclear power.”
“Nuclear is safe, it’s clean, it’s efficient and it’s relatively inexpensive,” said Chase, who is director and co-owner of French and Spanish Saturday School Inc., a languages school that operates at 11 sites in the eastern part of the state.
Kennedy has been an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq since before the invasion in 2003, and his office has detailed a Democratic plan that includes a call for the country to be free of foreign oil dependency by 2020.
“As always, the senator runs for the office, not against any one person,” said spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter.
Chase is challenging Kennedy to 10 debates, including one this month, four in September and five in October. The general election is Nov. 7.
Although Chase first must prevail in the September primary, he dismissed Scott’s chances, pointing to his own endorsement by the convention.
“I don’t think that anybody knows that there’s a primary anyways,” he said.
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http://www.masslive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1156665383126170.xml?nnch
Candidate touts moderate views
Sunday, August 27, 2006
By BEA O’QUINN DEWBERRY
bdewberry@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD – Kevin Scott, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, said he supports enhanced border patrols, immigration reform, civil unions and a 17 percent income tax for all taxpayers.
“I define myself as a tolerant traditionalist,” Scott said during an editorial board meeting on Thursday at The Republican.
A former Democrat, who converted to the Republican party years ago, Scott said he supports first-term abortions remaining legal, but promotes abstinence and adoptions as a means to control the number of abortions.
Scott said his moderate views makes him “the candidate to grow the (Republican) party” and the one to oust incumbent Edward M. Kennedy, who has served in the Senate since 1962.
Scott, 43, said his advantage over Republican opponent Kenneth G. Chase, of Belmont, a co-owner of schools that specialize in teaching languages, is his prior political experience as a Wakefield selectman and member of the Board of Public Works.
On immigration, Scott said the nation needs to do more to secure its borders. Scott said the flood of illegal immigrants poses a threat to national security, and he disagrees with Kennedy’s immigration reform bill that would grant amnesty to some undocumented immigrants.
“One of the primary rights of a sovereign nation is the right to secure its borders,” Scott said. “We’re not filtering the people coming to this country.”
As for the war in Iraq, Scott said the nation needs to continue its operations there until the Iraqi military and the government is able to function independently.
Scott, a former small business owner, has also worked for TechnoMatch, a job placement firm for technology professionals throughout Massachusetts.
Scott holds bachelor’s degrees from Newbury College, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Scott said he speaks intermediate Russian and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
The primary is on Sept. 18. The general election is on Nov. 7.
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http://www.berkshireeagle.com/fastsearch/ci_4193943
Candidate blames Kennedy
Chase pins war on energy failures
By Jack Dew, Berkshire Eagle Staff
Thursday, August 17
PITTSFIELD — Kenneth G. Chase, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, blames Edward M. Kennedy for the war in Iraq, saying it was Kennedy’s job to wean the United States from Middle Eastern oil.
During an interview this week in The Eagle office, Chase said the senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts should have learned the lessons of the oil embargo in 1973 and helped the country develop alternative energy sources.
He said Kennedy had a “solemn obligation” to “liberate us from Middle Eastern oil, and he failed to address it.”
Because the U.S. relies on oil, Chase said, the country has fought two wars against Iraq and faces the likelihood of war against Iran to keep supplies flowing.
“The war was easily avoidable if Ted Kennedy, the most powerful Democrat in the land, had done his job. Ted Kennedy failed to do his job,” he said. “This is the greatest act of legislative malfeasance in the last half-century.”
Promotes nuclear power
Chase said he would pursue an agenda of alternative energy, particularly nuclear power. France — which he described as his second country — has embraced nuclear energy and has a stellar safety record, and the United States could learn from its experience.
“Nuclear is safe, clean, reliable and domestically produced,” he said.
He supports storing nuclear waste in facilities such as Yucca Mountain in Nevada and said that the problem of nuclear waste is one to be solved by scientists and is a question of assessing risks.
“Ted Kennedy has had 44 years to solve energy, and look at where we are. He’ll issue a press release saying he
cares about energy diversity, but he has had 44 bloody years. Where is the solution?” Chase said. “Well, sir, you failed. That’s why our boys are dead in Iraq.”
Chase, who runs a language school and lives in Belmont, is competing against Kevin P. Scott of Auburn in the Sept. 19 Republican primary.
An uphill battle
The winner will have the Quixotic task of trying to unseat Kennedy, who won 73 percent of the vote in 2000, easily beating wealthy Republican Jack E. Robinson and Libertarian Carla Howell.
Chase said he doesn’t think about whether he can win but rather about his obligations as a citizen and patriot.
Priority is solving issues
“My first calculation is not whether I can win. My first calculation is what is wrong with the government, and can I help fix it?” Chase said. “My priority is not winning personally, my priority is solving the great issues of the day.”
He said he is opposed to same-sex marriage and is anti-abortion. On both subjects, he said he would like to see a more thoughtful discourse, not a divisive one.
Comment by Mike Morrisey — August 30, 2006 @ 4:56 pm