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Tuesday’s political upset in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate was huge.  State Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat was soundly trounced in a Democrat stronghold by Republican State Senator Scott Brown.

Elected officials of all political party affiliation should heed the message that was sent by the voters of Massachusetts on behalf of the rest of America.

Despite the commentary by the Republicans after the election results were announced, the message was not one of partisan politics nor one of liberal versus conservative views.

The message

The message was that the public is fed up with people we elect to represent us deciding what is best for us.

We don’t elect members of the lege branch of government at the local, state or federal level to be our parents. We elect them to represent OUR views on matters before them.

For an example of how we citizens are ignored one doesn’t have to look any further than the recent arrogant, contemptible, behavior of members of the LA Lege to grant themselves a massive pay raise.

Fortunately, the uproar was so loud that even Bobby Jindal heard it. In a bid to save his own political hide he was forced to veto the raise after having promised the Republican leges he would let it become the law.

We’re the boss!

Americans can only be pushed so far before they stand and fight back. It seems that those in other countries see that more clearly than the politicians in our own country.

It’s time for the politicians of all political persuasions and at all levels of government to shut up (that includes these press releases and media events about the MA election) and start listening to the people.

The citizens aren’t as dumb as the politicians seem to think, but even if we are we remain their bosses.

C.B.