Mass.: KARI MACRAE TO ASK FOR A RECOUNT IN STATE SENATE PRIMARY

KARI MACRAE TO ASK FOR A RECOUNT IN STATE SENATE PRIMARY
MacRae says: “In the words of Yogi Berra, ‘It ain’t over ‘til it’s over –
and this State Senate primary isn’t over!’ On to the recount!”
BOURNE, Mass. – Kari MacRae, the 2022 Republican nominee for State Senate in the
Plymouth and Barnstable District and the only Republican candidate for the open Senate seat in
2024 to endorse President Donald Trump, announced her intention to seek a district-wide
recount in the GOP primary race.
STATEMENT OF KARI MACRAE ON INTENTION TO SEEK A DISTRICT-WIDE RECOUNT
IN STATE SENATE PRIMARY
“I am used to being an underdog and counted out. Few thought I had a chance against a
five-term incumbent state representative from the biggest town in the district who was the
hand-selected candidate of the GOP establishment.
“Despite being massively outspent, my grassroots conservative campaign shocked the
Massachusetts political world last night. At about midnight, I enjoyed a 581-vote lead on
Representative Muratore. I was cautiously optimistic our energetic campaign — ‘the little engine
that could’ – might score the biggest upset of the political season.
“Then Plymouth weighed in – Representative Muratore’s hometown. The Plymouth Town Clerk
informed us that about 1,800 early and mail-in ballots remained to be counted. There had been
system problems. We were told the votes would be counted outside our view and posted on the
Town Clerk’s website at approx. 3 am.
“Vote counting in the middle of the night in my opponent’s hometown. I had a 581-vote lead.
What could go wrong, right?
“Well, surprise, surprise! I learned at 3 am Representative Muratore had substantially
overperformed on his earlier results in Plymouth and now had a 53-vote lead.
“Needless to say, I was deeply disturbed by the substantial irregularities in the Plymouth
vote-counting efforts – but I had won by big margins in Bourne, my hometown, and the other
Barnstable County communities of Sandwich, Mashpee, and Falmouth, in addition to the
Plymouth County community of Pembroke.
“In a mere couple of hours in the Town Clerk’s office in Plymouth, a 581-vote lead turned into a
48-vote deficit.
“Let me put things into perspective.
“The Plymouth and Barnstable Senate District consists of 55 precincts across the eight towns in
the district. The 53 votes separating me from Representative Muratore is a margin of less than
one vote per precinct.
“I do not accept the election result delivered at 3 am by the Plymouth Town Clerk. I strongly
believe I won this race. More importantly, I strongly believe I owe it to the thousands of
grassroots conservative voters who cast their ballots for me, that I must continue to fight for
them.
“That is why I will petition the Secretary of State for a districtwide recount of the vote in the GOP
Senate primary.
“We must have a vote-count to this election that is above reproach and accepted as valid by
everyone. Today, we don’t have that. After a comprehensive recount, I hope we will.”
“In the words of Yogi Berra, ‘It ain’t over ‘til it’s over – and this State Senate primary isn’t over!’
On to the recount!
“Massachusetts has massive problems. Voters clamor for change. Real change. Positive
change that gets state government back on the right track.
“Disastrous, wrongheaded policies repeatedly supported with frightening zealotry by
ultra-liberals, like State Representative Dylan Fernandes, are not the answer and most certainly
do not represent change.
“Let me tell you what I know about Representative Dylan Fernandes.
“Eight years in the Legislature. He’s got a long voting record.
“Here’s what he’s for, driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, permitting sanctuary cities, preventing
immigration enforcement, an 80% increase in income tax rates on the state’s most productive
residents, making housing more expensive with a 2% transfer tax on real estate sales, doubling
the capital gains tax rate, hiking the gas tax and higher energy costs.
“Here’s what he’s against: cutting the state sales tax, reducing the state income tax, suspending
the gas tax, blocking a hike in the corporate tax, capping the short-term capital gains tax,
commonsense death tax reform, defunding sanctuary cities, reversing extravagant pay raises
provided to state legislators, transparency in state government – the Massachusetts Legislature
is the least transparent in the country and Fernandes voted against disclosing Legislative
expenditures over $10,000 and against publication of committee votes, secure elections and
voter identification. Fernandes voted against an amendment that would prevent the government
from blocking a person from voting if that person refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We’ve got lots of problems in Massachusetts. Almost every one of them is Representative
Dylan Fernandes’ fault. He’s the champion of the unsustainable status quo. If you want
change, Dylan Fernandes is not the Senate candidate for you.
“I look forward to getting through the recount and into the general election. I await the
opportunity to engage Representative Fernandes on the playing field of issues and ideas. I
stand for common sense. Dylan champions the failed policies responsible for the mess we’re in
now.”
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