Massachusetts is missing a golden opportunity to bolster tourism. What the state should do is run advertising in Wisconsin and Indiana and any other state with a Republican Governor and offer a place of respite for state Legislators that find they must flee their home state to avoid, well, legislating.
It would be a perfect match – Massachusetts is as left-leaning as you can get, I am sure Governor Patrick would welcome the fleers with open arms. They could attend a sporting event, experience some wonderful Italian food in the North End, visit some museums. And we certainly have history to show, just send them off down the Freedom Trail and show them Boston as the cradle of Democracy. Oh wait, sorry, that would certainly be in bad form. But I’m sure we could put together some tours that do not remind our visitors of the Democracy from which they are fleeing. I think it could drive a huge increase in tourism dollars (at least in the short term, I expect the number of such fleeing Democrats will decline with each election).
We could run with the tag line “Democracy got you seeing red? Flee to where the politics are blue!”
I think it would be a huge winner! Now, if we can just figure out how to get our State Legislature to flee to Rhode Island….
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