One Victory in Eight Races in Open Seats

       The two professionals at the Article 8 Alliance, Brian Camenker and Jim Lafferty, wisely spent their time with the seven incumbents who were targeted by the homosexual activists.

       The eight candidates who battled for eight seats that were open (due to the retirement of incumbents) were on their own because of the lack of money to help them at Article 8. One of the eight was victorious, two did well enough to run again next time, two were supported by Gov. Romney and were soundly defeated, two did not go above 40% and one volunteer Republican ran a nondescript race without even mentioning marriage and only garnered 33%.

        The one victor was Richard Ross (R-Wrentham) who won the House seat being vacated by the new Senator Scott Brown.
The next best showing was on the Cape where Richard Neitz lost a 49%-51% squeaker to a pro-homosexual candidate.

       There was a strong showing in Sen. David Magnani’s old district in the Framingham/Hopkinton area where Republican Jim Coffey obtained 43% of the vote against Rep. Karen Spilka who was running for this Senate seat.

       Gov. Romney and the Republican Party had some failures in these open seats, the worst being in the Boston race for the seat of the retiring Paul Demakis. The Governor and the Party endorsed an open homosexual, Richard Babson, who went down to a disastrous defeat.

       The Governor and the Party also lost where Robi Blute, wife of former Congressman, Peter Blute attempted to please everyone and went down 31%-61%.