Ed King

Former Massachusetts governor Edward J. King, not to be confused with contending candidate and talkshow regular at the time Edward F. King, has died at the age of 81.  I always regarded Ed King highly, and was pleased when he was elected over Dukakis.  What a shame it went the other way four years later.  But at least the sequence of governors eventually led to Bill Weld.

What do we have to do to get another Bill Weld, anyway?  Sharon has a favored candidate (or lack thereof) poll today and the choices are downright grim.  Except maybe none of the above, which ought to be but sadly isn’t a real life option.  Imagine being able to reject them all with NOTA, then holding a redo election in which none of the rejects could run.  Hell, yeah!

But really, Bill Weld was a stealth libertarian, and we are still enjoying the results of his time in office.  We should do that more often.

King wasn’t bad either, being so conservative compared to the plunder as usual crew.  Rest in peace, Governor.

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