"They're trying to plant that seed of fear that these initiatives will lead to the utter meltdown of our state, and that's nonsense," said Dan Maes, a businessman who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor.
When Massachusetts lawmakers returned to work this month, these jumbo-sized, hard-to-chew items were on their legislative plate: the financial meltdown of the state's biggest health maintenance organization, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; rising prices for prescription drugs, and the lack of an H.M.O.
Sitting beneath portraits of Fidel Castro of Cuba, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, among others, Mr. Oquist also said that the meltdown of 2008 proved that no state or states had a monopoly on financial wisdom.
"I thought it was meltdown," said Ed Miliband, Britain's secretary of state for energy and climate change.
(The former president appears to be on a schedule of one meltdown per state).
UNLESS an unexpected meltdown occurs, Hillary Clinton will be America's next secretary of state.
The marketplaces are far more stable than last fall, when the meltdown of HealthCare.gov and several state-run websites threatened a key pillar of the law.
Denise Voigt Crawford, the Texas securities commissioner, called the erosion of state regulatory and enforcement powers "a significant factor in the severity of the financial meltdown".
"Our options are this or a financial meltdown," said State Representative Steven Andersson, a suburban Chicago Republican who voted in favor of the overrides.
A central question then is whether 'reprogramming' into a lineage promiscuous state only reflects the meltdown of epigenetic memory and/or confer selective advantages to tumour cells.
