Posted on 07/18/2006 5:55:41 PM PDT by A. Pole
Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whose administration hired Big Dig manager Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, yesterday attributed problems on the huge construction project to later administrations.
Dukakis, the last Democrat to hold the Massachusetts governor's office, told a television interviewer last night that he had urged Governor William F. Weld, a Republican, to ask Frederick P. Salvucci, transportation secretary under Dukakis, "to stay on and run that project for you."
"Well, he didn't do that," Dukakis said of Weld on WGBH's "Greater Boston."
"So we've had a series of people over there who aren't bad people," Dukakis said, "but they didn't have anywhere near the kind of skill and the qualifications -- I mean Salvucci's got two degrees from MIT. He's got political skills coming out of his ears. He's done incredible work. I mean if Fred Salvucci had run that job ... it would have been done in half the time and at half the cost."
Salvucci was transportation secretary from 1983 to 1991.
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What is 'dukakis'? Is that plural for 'kaka'??
what I don't understand is why the construction and engineering companies aren't being forced to fix the shoddy work at their own expense. On top of that the city should be fining them for the shoddy work. Yet all I keep reading is how the fees for all the highways will be increased to deal with this fiasco.
It is probably out of warranty.
My brother was in rehab with Kitty. I'm not kidding.
That annoyed the Hell out of me back then, when the liberal media and Dukakis' brain-dead supporters called him that. There's only ONE Duke, and Dukakis' isn't fit to tie his shoes.
Lemme guess. He was your fav...
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