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The Boston Globe reports that its new Democratic governor won’t recognize Ronald Reagan’s birthday with a day of proclamation. You could expect ultra-liberal Massachusetts to turn down the chance to honor President Reagan, but not Ohio.

The new icon of Massachusetts Democrats has rebuffed efforts to commemorate a day for Ronald Reagan, the last Republican to win the Commonwealth in a presidential election. And Reaganites are not happy.

Governor Deval Patrick decided not to sign a proclamation recognizing Feb. 6 as “Ronald Reagan Day.” A month into his term as governor, snubbing the Gipper’s birthday has left Patrick open to partisan sniping.

A prominent conservative said Democratic New York Governor Eliot
Spitzer declared the holiday.

According to Americans for Tax Reform, Ohio’s Gov. Strickland declined to issue a proclamation recognizing Reagan’s birthday.

The “offer no-solutions, offend-no-partisans” approach of Team Strickland slipped up here. The Gipper won 2.4 million votes in 1984 when Ohio was still recovering from a crushing recession because he offered a concrete vision of hope and empowerment to the people of this state. Our new governor would have done himself a favor by hitching on to that wagon.

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