Vote for Pat Kriegel in the Norfolk 3rd District

The organization of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts has 14 counties.
Link to a map provided by the Massachusetts Secretary of State. (PDF format)

This is Norfolk County. Pat is running as a Republican for Norfolk County's 3rd House District. These areas make up the district: Holbrook: Precincts 2, 3, 4; Quincy: Ward 2, Ward 4: Precinct 5; Weymouth: Precincts 5, 6, 9, 12, 16

Who is Pat Kriegel?

Copied from her campaign website: "For many years I have worked on campaigns for many different candidates. The first time I volunteered was for Paul Tsongas at his headquarters in the Statler Office building a long, long time ago. I would later go door to door in Quincy and Norwood for Michael Bellotti when he first ran for Norfolk County Sheriff. Yes, like many born and raised in MA, I was a Democrat. One thing I never did was vote for Teddy after Chappaquiddick.  I would leave it blank or vote for anyone who ran against him."

"Then the Democratic Party changed, it is no longer the Party my parents supported, it is no longer the Party of JFK, who said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”.  To me Ronald Regan had the same philosophy, he inspired Americans to rely on themselves and not the government, and so I voted for him.  President Regan said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me” and that is so true for many.

In 2009 I was now a grandmother and saw what was happening in our wonderful country and started voicing my concerns on social media for the next four years until I went to see Jeff Kuhner of WRKO and Scott Brown at Bentley College.  The theme was just don’t sit there and complain, "get up and do something" and so I am doing something to help save our state from the insanity that liberalism has become."

Link to Pat's Facebook page.

If you want to volunteer to help the campaign, please e-mail her. 

Pat.Kriegel@Yahoo.com

Link to the page on her campaign website that allows you to make contributions to the campaign.

His name is Elbert Guillory. He is a Louisiana State Senator. Like Pat, he was once a Democrat. Listen to him tell you why he decided to become a Republican. Pat and Elbert didn't leave the Democrat party, it left them.

If you are a Democrat, your party will leave you, too, sooner or later, and the only people who will be left in the party will be loud, angry extremists.

Pat's Opponent is a Democrat

He is loud and angry. He is Ronald Mariano He is running for the 3rd Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Ron, it's not smart for a man in your condition to run too hard. You were born in 1946, not 1976. Try to keep up with a grandmother. When you feel like you're out of breath, sit down and rest.

Drink some water and rest some more.  Be sure to monitor your heart rate and blood pressure.

Ron, when you think that you're feeling better, don't try running again.  Start by walking slowly and see how you feel.  Call your doctor and make sure he knows that you're exercising.

Don't worry about Pat, she has lots of energy because she will fight long and hard for her issues when she's a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

A Japanese grandmother can run faster than most teenagers.  Link to my essay about this wonderful woman.

Reasons to vote for Pat

The Minimum Wage Scandal

As the Majority Leader in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Ron arranged for this "legislative body" to abandon its' duty to the voters.

The Massachusetts Legislature approved, on a voice vote, an increase in the so-called "minimum wage".

These are the first four paragraphs of the Executive Summary of a report that was produced by Suffolk University's Beacon Hill Institute: (PDF format)

A bill introduced by Representative J. James Marzilli would raise the Massachusetts minimum wage in two stages from $6.75 per hour to $8.25 per hour.  The bill would also index the minimum wage to consumer prices and provide for a commission to consider further increases in the minimum wage to “reflect existing economic conditions in the commonwealth.”

Supporters of the bill have distributed an “Economists’ Statement Supporting an Increase in the Massachusetts Minimum Wage.” This statement claims that the increase would yield benefits to labor and business alike and downplays any worry about job losses that the increase might bring about.  But, while some of the 50 signatories are among the state’s leading economists, the statement ignores a consensus among labor economists that increases in the minimum wage do, in fact, destroy jobs.  Indeed, one of the signatories, Professor Karl E. Case of Wellesley University, has coauthored a textbook in which he describes exactly how the job losses come about.

The Beacon Hill Institute estimates, conservatively, that the proposed increase in the Massachusetts minimum wage would cost the state 26,970 jobs.  The preponderance of this loss would be among low wage workers, women workers and workers 20 years old and older.

Most workers affected by the increase would, to be sure, keep their jobs and, in doing so, enjoy higher wages.  The wage gain for these fortunate workers would be about $405 million.  But that gain would be largely offset by $371 million in wages lost by the workers who, as a result of the higher minimum wage, ended up unemployed.

If you're not an economist, here's an easy way to understand this issue.

All you have to do is answer three questions.

1. If the minimum wage goes up automatically, does that mean that the income of the stores and restaurants that pay people those wages will go up automatically?


2. If the income of the stores and restaurants doesn't go up,
   
   • but if their expenses do go up, because they're forced to pay more in hourly wages to their employees,
   
   
   then how can these stores and restaurants avoid laying off some of the people that they hired?


3. Some of the stores and restaurants that were barely profitable while paying the current minimum wage to their employees will be unprofitable when the law goes into effect.  Do you expect unprofitable stores and restaurants to stay open?  Pat doesn't, but Ron does.

Whenever the minimum wage goes up, it's an increase in the costs for all the small businesses, including stores and restaurants, that have to pay those people, without any corresponding increases in the ability of those stores and restaurants to pay the money.

Ron voted to increase the expenses of Massachusetts stores and restaurants without increasing any of their revenue, the money they will need to pay for those higher expenses.

Illegal immigrants in public housing

They're illegal because they didn't get the approval of the United States Customs and Immigration Bureau when they entered this country.  Few other countries in the world have such poor border security, and the only categories that these countries are good at are poverty and crime.

Illegal immigrants were living in public housing even as long as five years ago.  Link to a story in USA Today dated January 1, 2009.  Ron has been tolerating this at least five years as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and he has made this a policy.

Some of those illegal immigrants, like Obama's Auntie Zitunie, live here in Massachusetts-subsidized public housing.

And yet, the men and women who have been discharged from military service, many of whom now need public housing, aren't getting it because the illegal aliens are ahead of them in line for any available units in public housing in this state.

Charlie Baker, one of the Republican candidates for Governor, had a confrontation with the director of a "housing collaborative" in Chelsea, a city that was run so poorly, management of this city was taken away from it's mayor and given to a receiver.  Link to a story dated September18, 1991 in Education Week. Link to a story dated August 29, 2014 in the Chelsea Record about the confrontation.

Massachusetts State Senator Bob Hedlund wants to change this.  These are the first three paragraphs of a story dated August 17, 2014 in Wicked Local Marshfield.

In Massachusetts, illegal aliens are still accessing public housing.  State Sen. Robert L. Hedlund (R-Weymouth), once again, wants to change this.

Hedlund offered an amendment to address the issue of illegal aliens securing state subsidized housing.

The amendment passed in the Massachusetts State Senate, but failed to earn support from the conference committee, Hedlund said.

Guess who was responsible for naming the legislators that served on this committee from the Massachusetts House of Representatives and earned extra pay and benefits for doing so?

That's right, Robert Mariano!

Newsflash to the Democrat Party!  Most Americans don't want illegal children in their town's public schools.  Part of the reason is because there are a lot of 20-something and 30-something adults (pretending to be children with the enthusiastic approval of the federal government) sitting next to their children in those public school classrooms and meeting them in school locker rooms.

Link to a story dated August 16, 2014 in the Washington Times, which says that the illegals are getting "first-class treatment" at the expense of taxpayers.  They're also getting their first-class treatment at the expense of homeless veterans.

These three paragraphs are part of a story in the Lowell Sun dated August 28, 2014.  The link to the story is after the story.

The issue of housing preference for legal residents was recently debated by state lawmakers, with both branches passing similar plans in welfare reform and housing bond bills. In both instances, the proposals did not make it to the final version of the bills.

House lawmakers last year overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed provision that would prevent people who are ineligible for federal public housing from receiving state public housing. After it was adopted as part of a $1.4 billion housing bond bill, the amendment was removed from the final version of the bill.

As part of a welfare reform bill last year, the Senate also passed a similar proposal that would align Massachusetts with federal public housing rules that give priority to citizens and legal immigrants. The proposal did not make it into the final version of the legislation.

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_26418785/baker-calls-changes-public-housing-system#ixzz3COTGYllR

Guess who was responsible for removing the amendments to those pieces of legislation which made it hard for our homeless veterans to have access to public housing?

That's right, Robert Mariano!

Here's to you, Pat. Go, Pat, Go !!!