If he can't live on his current salary which exceeds most Massachusetts residents, how can he manage taxpayers' money? How can voters expect him to relate to their financial struggles? Does this mean that the cost of college education is increasingly unaffordable?
Wonder what his taxpayer-funded pension looks like.
Of curious note is that Middleboro's Republican Selectmen Ben Quelle [below] railed when Senator John Kerry's resignation as Senator and appointment as Secretary of State caused a statewide election and additional local municipal costs. Senator Kerry's resignation was caused by a 'promotion' not as Rep. Winslow's was caused by poor personal financial planning.
A few from Blue Mass Group:
Dan Winslow ties himself in knots – or was it a sailor’s hitch? – over yacht clubs
Around the horn on climate: Winslow/RGGI/Christie
Dan Winslow: A+ from Massachusetts NRA
GOP lawmaker set to resign
Citing finances, Winslow also won’t run for AG
By Jim O’Sullivan
| Globe Staff September 17, 2013
He has been among Beacon Hill’s most press-friendly Republicans, handy with gimmicky hijinks that poked fun at Democrats and their granite supermajorities in the Legislature, sometimes to the annoyance of his GOP colleagues.
Then he was a contender for the US Senate seat that opened earlier this year when John F. Kerry became secretary of state.
And, until days ago, Republicans considered Daniel B. Winslow, a Norfolk Republican, a likely occupant of the ticket that will be put before voters in November 2014. Privately, he had told associates he would probably run for attorney general if the Democratic incumbent, Martha Coakley, opted to run for governor, as she announced Sunday that she would.
Winslow teased his announcement on Twitter Sunday, leading many political observers to believe he was planning to go public with plans to run for the law enforcement post. But on Monday he said that, instead of pursuing higher political office, he would resign from the House to take a job as a software executive.
A former district court judge and chief legal counsel in Governor Mitt Romney’s office, the second-term state representative told the Globe that he could no longer afford public life.
“The fiscal realities of public service have come to the fore,” said Winslow. “I realized that if I were to win public office, let alone run for public office — that if I were to win, I wouldn’t be able to pay my bills.”
Winslow said he has one child in college, another in graduate school, and a third planning to go to college next year. He also carries a hefty campaign debt. He said he planned to take another look at politics probably in four years.
State Republican Party chairwoman Kirsten Hughes told a reporter that Winslow would leave a void in the state’s political scene, “especially for you guys — you never knew what he was going to do.”
“He certainly will stay on the radar, in terms of somebody to touch base with,” Hughes said.
Winslow finished a disappointing distant third in the Senate primary, behind nominee Gabriel E. Gomez and former US attorney Michael J. Sullivan. But Winslow rejected the idea that divisions within the party had fueled his decision.
Instead, he said, his upcoming personal bills and lingering campaign debt had prompted him to join the growing parade of elected officials seeking increased financial fulfillment in the private sector.
On June 30, Federal Election Commission documents showed Winslow’s political committee was more than $160,000 in debt. Winslow said Monday the committee was still $154,000 in the red.
In July, the Federal Election Commission ruled, in response to a Winslow petition, that married gay couples must receive equal treatment under election laws, permitting them to make political contributions jointly from the same account.
Winslow, whose petition was followed by a similar one from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he hoped to leverage the decision into a fund-raising windfall that would help him retire his campaign debt.
Winslow’s private finances, at least, should grow a bit healthier once he resigns his House seat, on Sept. 29, to take a position as senior vice president and general counsel of Rimini Street Inc., a Las Vegas-based company that provides software support services for Oracle and SAP licensees.
He said he would retain his legal residence in Massachusetts and keep an apartment near San Francisco, and plans to travel to Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.
Asked Monday about how much his new job would pay, Winslow replied, “More than I make now.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/16/winslow-becomes-latest-leave-hill-for-private-sector/IzzFgORuAlHKvWwmuMiTEJ/story.html
What say you, Mr. Quell?
When a statewide special election was launched to filled the unexpired term of Senator John Kerry who filled the position of Secretary of State, the Commonwealth passed legislation that enabled municipalities to combine elections, where possible, to reduce costs.
A Middleboro Selectman, Ben Quell launched a childish rant about people being elected should fill the terms for which they were elected, otherwise labeling them 'QUITTERS,' costing taxpayers money and much else, exposing his irrational views.
Knapik resignation leaves opening for Democratic Senate pickup in 2nd Hampden and Hampshire
Republican State Senator Mike Knapik of Westfield has announced that he is resigning his 2nd Hampden and Hampshire seat to take a position at Westfield State University.
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