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Governor Romney finally gets resignation from head of the BIG DIG.
WBZ-TV

Posted on 07/27/2006 9:02:04 AM PDT by ladyjane

Breaking news: Governor Romney finally gets the head of the Big Dig to resign.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bigdig; corruption; government
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To: Thunderchief F-105
The other day, there was a heart-attack victim being rushed to the hospital when the ambulance got stuck in a Big-Dig related back-up for 24 minutes (usually a 4-minute trip). The guy died. It's indirect, but it's still a death.

Man dies in tunnel backup

-PJ

41 posted on 07/27/2006 12:27:53 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: dfwgator
shot=short

Meh. You say tomato I say tomato.



That really doesn't work when typed.
42 posted on 07/27/2006 12:32:51 PM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: trumandogz
Romney has very little control over the Turnpike Authority. Many states, like Massachusetts and New York, have no legal authority to incur debt. So instead they form semi-autonomous "authorities" like the Port of New York Authority, the New York Dormitory Authority or the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. These entities issue bonds that do not carry the "full faith and credit" of the state but are "moral obligations". The Mass. Turnpike Auth. is suppose to pay off bonds with receipts from tolls. Romney basically took a run at Amarello when he was down politically, it isn't at all clear he has any legal authority to fire him, even for gross mismanagement.

I think Mitt would have liked to have cleaned out the Turnpike Authority his first day in office.

Interesting story about the New York Dormitory Authority. It was formed to build the 58 or so campus (forth declension, plural: campus) of SUNY back in the 50's and 60's. Mario Cuomo had them "buy" the prisons from the state for like a billion large. The Dormitory paid for the sale by issuing bonds which would be paid off from - rent received from the state over the next forty years from the prisons it just bought. A very cute way for a state which is constitutionally barred from borrowing money to borrow money! I hate Democrats.
43 posted on 07/27/2006 2:56:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: trumandogz

P.S: Amarello is a RINO.


44 posted on 07/27/2006 2:58:40 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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