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Sat Jan 16, 2010 at 20:58:40 PM EST
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| In a new outbreak of Republican cluelessness, Republican candidate Scott Brown has claimed -- you can read it on http://RedMassGroup.com --that MGL56.42
Chapter 56: Section 42. False statements relating to candidates or questions submitted to voters
Section 42. No person shall make or publish, or cause to be made or published, any false statement in relation to any candidate for nomination or election to public office, which is designed or tends to aid or to injure or defeat such candidate.
No person shall publish or cause to be published in any letter, circular, advertisement, poster or in any other writing any false statement in relation to any question submitted to the voters, which statement is designed to affect the vote on said question.
Whoever knowingly violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months.
is legally enforceable, as opposed to being a Demonstration of the inability of the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth to understand the Federal and State Constitutions, notably the First Amendment (Federal). He has threatened to file criminal charges against various Democrats for a flier they circulated.
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