Posted on 04/02/2009 7:17:46 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Gov. Deval Patrick has stashed four staffers in big-bucks jobs at several of the quasi-public agencies he is now vowing to reform - including one post worth a jaw-dropping $190,000 a year, the Herald has learned.
Patrick ordered up a probe of salaries at quasi-public agencies last week as taxpayer outrage peaked over his tapping of Sen. Marian Walsh for a long-vacant $175,000-a-year post with the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
But four Patrick administration staffers have landed at quasi-public agencies:
He also spent most of his time out of state campaigning for president all the while the state house was cleaning out the cookie jar.
Mitt also gave us “Romney Care”. Mitt didn't win one state congressional district for the republicans. He didn't even spend a dime.
He is a one term governor. This is his only elected office.
To be honest the previous republican administrations didn't accomplish a whole lot either. Bill Weld did clean house in his first two years and then he hired all of his friends into government and started hanging around Billy Bulger.
Mitt is for Mitt.
Massachussetts should look like Detroit if those people had the brains to leave
Then explain why it doesn’t look like Detroit.
Today's Howie Carr show is a prime example of why I rarely listen to his shows anymore. There's SO MUCH good stuff out there to cover between Deval Patrick, Obama, etc., and what is Howie discussing today? Drag racing, driving drunk and breathalyzers. Geesh... what a waste.
maybe the Massfolk aren’t smart enough to leave?
Were on the edge though. Anymore increase in taxes and people will flee.
Example: California
Good grief. The day got busy (well, not busy enough that I can’t look at FR) so I’m not listening. Sounds like I’m not missing anything.
Hey, doesn't his cousin have some radio show or somethin'? < |:)~
Yeah, it's too bad. I like Howie personally, and he has lots of talent, but he doesn't use it a lot of the time. I just checked back into Howie's show (4:20pm)... he's yakking about some police infraction. What about Deval Patrick, or Obama's overseas trip, Howie?
Meanwhile, Sean Hannity is interviewing Fred Thompson...
So the first hour was about drag racing and breathalyzers. Then there was a discussion about some police infraction.
Around 4:30pm I had some hope... he read a Boston Herald headline that said "Deval's Hit the Hackpot" (LOL). Unfortunately, another headline in the Herald caught his eye... something about some guy shoplifting shrimp. So for the next half hour, Howie and his callers talked about shrimp and shoplifting.
C'mon, Howie (I know you lurk at FR)... I know you can do better than this! Some of your past shows have been brilliant. Mailing it in today? ;-)
Turning radio off... going to watch Glenn Beck on FNC...
You're joking, right?
You're joking, right?
LOTS of lesbians in Northampton, Massachusetts... not sure about the rest of the state.
They've been coming North for decades, turning NH into Massachusetts 2.0 - forget about securing the Mexican border, we need to secure the NH border!
Right you are!
Just keep this in mind next time the name "Mitt Romney" surfaces like a bloated cow in a pond...
that’s what happens when Deval Patricks teleprompter moved on to the Obama campaign. Without the teleprompter, Patrick had no idea what to do next......And it turned out to be corruption.
Single females vote democrat in high numbers which is a fact.
Through patronage processes like this one, eventually the Democratic Party will become The Party of People Who Don't Look Like You Don't Care About You and Plain Old Don't Like You Period and Frankly Wish You'd Go Away.
They'll have a problem keeping a majority, so I'm sure Obama is planning a minoritarian political machine that can keep power in spite of the majority. Which is how we finally come to Red/Blue civil war (and the Right ain't gonna be "Red").
Budget-smudget. Those are nice salaries, is Gov Patrick accepting resumes...
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