Romney Renews Drive To Overhaul Pike [Good Luck!]

The Boston Globe ^ | 12/18/2003 | Frank Phillips

[johnny7]

Governor Mitt Romney is reviving his campaign to dilute the powers of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew Amorello, but this time Amorello's legislative allies are ready to make changes in light of the chairman's recent missteps.

Romney wants to overhaul the Turnpike Authority, reduce its functions, and diminish Amorello's clout. The governor's aides say he plans to include the reorganization in the budget proposal he will present to the House next month. The administration's proposal was designed to reap $190 million in one-time savings and to generate $23 million a year, offering badly needed revenue to leaders in the Legislature who are once again facing a major budget deficit. Lawmakers rebuffed a similar proposal from Romney earlier this year, but now Amorello has weathered a year of controversy that was capped off by Amorello's plans to throw a lavish party, with a Boston Pops performance, to celebrate the opening of the last significant section of the Big Dig. Amorello was forced to call off the event late last week, but some of his one-time allies at the highest levels of the legislative leadership are quietly distancing themselves from the Turnpike Authority chairman, who has a $205,000-a-year contract until his term expires in 2007.

[johnny7]

Amorello is a perfect example of a government hack whose 'mothers milk' is the taxpayers dollar. They exist solely on one never-ending, over-budgeted boondoggle to the next, slurping on the government teat. “Don't kill the job” is their fight song... and the unions love it.

[Diogenesis]

So true. Also the Big Dig coverup is ongoing, run by "Judge" Ed Miles (aka Miles Ed) Ginsberg
who falsely claimed to have graduated Harvard Law School after merely attending a summer course.
With his own history of fraud so typical of many Massachusetts judges,
the judge with his own history of fixing probate cases for his friends
is now in position to purportedly "investigate".
[Cognoscendi know that Ginsberg is friends with the very lawyers who are springing multiple rapist "Father" Porter.]

[StatesEnemy]

How does being a state senator give one the expertise to run a turnpike authority? I would think you would need some form of EXECUTIVE experience.

[StatesEnemy]

Matt is big fat scumbag... Bechtel (the major contractor) PROFITED from their own gross negligence (over a $1,000,000,000 in cost overruns due to MISTAKES!)

Carolyn Kain, the Turnpike Authority's former deputy general counsel, told the agency's chairman that the state had a strong case for a refund from Bechtel. In a confidential e-mail, Kain wrote that the evidence "points directly" at Bechtel. If Bechtel refused to pay immediately, she said, "It is my recommendation that litigation be commenced forthwith."

A few weeks later Matthew Amorello, the Turnpike Authority's chairman, fired Kain...
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[StatesEnemy]

I'm thinkin, ol' Matty is getting some kick backs...