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National Republican group aiming to end Democratic supermajority in Massachusetts Statehouse
State House News Service
on July 31, 2015 at 2:35 PM
By Andy Metzger

BOSTON — The Republican State Leadership Committee aims in next year's elections to end the supermajorities that Democrats enjoy in the Massachusetts House and Senate, part of a multi-prong effort to advance Republicans in various state Legislatures.

The group, which plans to spend $40 million on 2015-2016 legislative races, announced that Massachusetts would be one of its focuses from its national meeting in Boston on Thursday.

The Bay State will share attention with the Illinois House, as well as Republican legislatures hoping to defend their ranks and the six chambers where the group sees the best chance to pick up a majority: the Colorado House, Kentucky House, Washington House, Iowa Senate, Minnesota Senate, and New Mexico Senate.

Long dominant in the House and the Senate if not the Corner Office, Democrats hold 125 of the 160 seats in the House and 33 of the 40 seats in the Senate where a special election is currently underway following the death of Sen. Tom Kennedy, a Brockton Democrat.