Ah... still failing upward I see, Matt...
Posted on 07/12/2006 1:24:55 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Some say chief of turnpike will pay political price
By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | July 12, 2006
The Legislature has frequently rallied behind Matthew J. Amorello during his stormy tenure as chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, but yesterday he had few defenders on Beacon Hill.
Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, who has been an Amorello ally, refused repeated requests to comment about Amorello, a former Republican senator known for his ties to his former colleagues in the State House.
Six lawmakers and legislative staff members who were interviewed said privately that Amorello will pay a political price in the aftermath of the fatal accident Monday night. Governor Mitt Romney and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly publicly called for him to step down. Lawmakers who did speak publicly yesterday offered carefully worded remarks, saying they believed Amorello was being blamed for failures at the Big Dig that are not his fault. Amorello rebuffed calls to resign yesterday.
``The problems precede him," said Senator Robert L. Hedlund, Republican of Weymouth. ``The focus should be on holding those accountable who caused cost overruns and oversaw shoddy workmanship. That's the issue. It isn't making Matt Amorello a scapegoat. That isn't going to accomplish anything with cost recovery.
``I'm not defending Matt Amorello," he added. ``I don't mean to sound that way."
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It's a time honored tradition in Mass for hacks like him to require the jaws of life to extract them from their $100K/yr,20 hour a week,40 weeks a year state job.
Remember Nicky "Pockets" Mavroules? He was still confident of being re-elected even as they closed the jail cell door behind him.
Kerry is a loser... he lost big time to W, and continues to show he'll not amount to beans. And he never even committed any involuntary homicide.
Amorillo, on the other hand, looks like a new leader here in MA that will lead us to the promised land.
Why not? Mike Chertoff kept his job after Katrina. Incompetents who get people killed seem to be the darlings of politicos these days.
What are the odds that, if the man had been a Dem, his party affiliation would not have been mentioned???
You are blaming Chertoff for Katrina? As though he had operational control of the engineers and disaster relief. This is not like Mark Clark messing up in Italy.
How long has this guy been on the job? Is holding him responsible for this actually sensible?
"He's not responsible for the design or the construction, just for wrapping the project up."
Well...all this attention on this guy kinda removes attention from the real criminals doesn't it?
Chertoff's failure to ensure that FEMA was an effective disaster relief agency makes him ultimately responsible for its failures during the Katrina debacle. The fact that he wasn't fired afterwards has always left a bad taste in my mouth.
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chairman "Fat Matt" Amorello says he will not resign even though the Governor is saying he wants to have him fired....
Should Fat Matt Amorello resign?
Yes 96%
No 4%
http://www.howiecarr.com/
Ah... still failing upward I see, Matt...
"Chertoff's failure to ensure that FEMA was an effective disaster relief agency makes him ultimately responsible for its failures during the Katrina debacle."
The breadth and depth of the Katrina DISASTER was more than any planning could have anticipated. The measure of responsibility for reaction to that disaster should be measured by what has happened and is happening in the states affected.
The Big Dig was a Massachusetts Marxist boondoggle from day one of the planning stage. Corruption, graft, nepotism, egotism, ignorance, incompetence, thievery, and self-promotion were all in evidence; and all at taxpayer expense - thank you America for lining so many crooks' pockets. Throughout, the planning was obtuse, the engineering flawed, the supervision slipshod, and the workmanship atrocious. Although touted as a solution to Boston's traffic congestion, it was clear as work commenced that, even if it came in at projected cost and was flawlessly built, its provisions would be at best inadequate. Yet, it's been defective from the start, and now the hack Romney, the crook Reilly, and a cast of thousands are all frantically playing Cover Your A$$ and scapegoating the nearest convenient Target Of Opportunity. In truth, there's enough blame to go around the state bureaucracy and the state legislature several times over, but in a Marxist entity - as history clearly shows - everything, and I do mean everything, slowly turns to cr@p. In any case, everyone who had anything to do with this project should be in jail, along with the entire state government machine of Massacusetts.
Boston Globe Poll
Officials rush to contain damage to public trust in Big Dig
With a Big Dig flaw now responsible for a death, state officials rushed yesterday to contain an unprecedented crisis of public confidence in the project. Will you continue to drive through the Big Dig tunnels in the wake of Monday night's ceiling collapse in the Mass Pike connector tunnel?
No. I don't have enough faith that the tunnels are safe 81.4%
Yes. I'm confident enough the tunnels are safe. 18.6%
http://www.boston.com/news/local/gallery/tunnel_confidence/
"...entire state government machine of Massacusetts."
Massachusetts
Will anything ever shake the communist government of Massachusetts?
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