Posted on 03/28/2017 6:34:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
BOSTON (CBS) – Former gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos has died.
According to the Cape Cod Times, Mihos had cancer and passed away in hospice care in Florida on Saturday.
He made a fortune with a chain of convenience stores and also ran unsuccessfully for governor twice.
Mihos served on the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority when the Big Dig was under construction and correctly predicted it would go billions over budget.
He also had a very public and messy divorce with his wife in 2012.
Christy Mihos was 67 years old.
Mihos ran for MA governor as a Republican and an independent. He said the Big Dig would go way over budget and was right. One TV ad he had was a cartoon showing him talking to some politicians, two of whom looked like Romney and Healey, and they stick their heads up their butts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dfzNHfQmA
A messy divorce indeed, see below.
A frequent guest on Howie Carr’s radio show.
2013:
BOSTON (CBS) — The judge overseeing the divorce case of former convenience store magnate Christy Mihos has awarded most of the couple’s remaining four million in assets to his wife Andrea.
It’s a case Judge Robert Scandurra calls “unnerving” and “bizarre” and believes Mihos has no one to blame but himself.
It looked like happier times when Mihos made two bids for governor of Massachusetts, but the case reveals a family that never supported his runs for the office, and the judge found Mihos to be “deceptive, ego-driven, impulsive and rash, and ended up being financially devastating.”
According to the judge’s order Mihos admitted he lied to and deceived his family when he said he wouldn’t use personal funds in his two failed bids for governor. In his 2010 campaign he also admitted it wasn’t a serious bid, what he called a lark.
Andrea Mihos’ attorneys say he squandered an astounding $25 million since selling his convenience store empire in 2009, some on politics, a lot on prostitutes.
His own daughter Ashley testified that she heard Mihos call his wife names that were “vile and some of the worst names this court has heard.”
Mihos still faces charges of assaulting his wife in their lavish West Yarmouth home that has been ordered by the judge to be sold.http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/11/06/divorce-judge-awards-most-of-christy-mihos-fortune-to-wife/
Boondockle? Please elaborate.
“This tunnel will be a bargain”—John Kerry
The MA Big Dig project went way over budget costing people all over the country. Tunnel collapses, etc Final cost $15 billion
>>Leave it to Massachusetts, though, to turn the Big Dig’s reputation from resounding success to humiliating failure—first in terms of the project’s cost. From day one—even after accounting for politicians’ erring on the low side to gain public approval—the Big Dig was fated to cost more than its 1982 price tag of $2.6 billion.
Boondoggle: A boondoggle is a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations. The term arose from a 1935 New York Times report that more than $3 million had been spent on recreational activities for the jobless as part of the New Deal.
A perfect word to describe the big dig.
Death
Four weeks after complaining of stomach pain, Christy Mihos died of pancreatic cancer. At the time of the diagnosis, doctors told him the cancer had spread to his bladder and liver. Due to the advanced stage of his cancer, he declined further treatment, and entered hospice care.
Wikipedia
I haven’t thought about him in years.
That and the other joke I remember him telling was “If they want to depress the Central Artery they should just have Mike Dukakis talk to it.”
The death of that poor woman was horrible.
So that’s who Howie Carr stole that line from.....
I saw the news last night and thought, didn’t he die last year? Maybe his cancer was mentioned last year, and that was what I’d remembered instead.
The woman’s name was Melena, and was said to be “Melinda”
by Fatt Matt Amorello (Mass hwy chief IIRC)
With all of the other prima donnas in local politics it’s difficult to keep up.
Oy. I remember him well:
When he was appointed chairman of the Turnpike Authority in 2002, Amorello, a longtime state senator from Grafton, inherited the Big Dig project that was already billions of dollars over budget and years past the original completion date. His task was to get it finished and he did. A year later he was cutting the ribbons to open both the north and south sides of the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. tunnels, and the I-90 Connector Tunnel but by 2005, both tunnels were leaking.
Amorello was also criticized for a failure to hold contractors accountable for mistakes on the project and drew criticism for accepting a Man of the Year award from a group of contractors.
In 2008, he appeared before the State Ethics Commission to answer charges that he violated conflict-of-interest laws by changing sick leave policy that would affect him. He was later fined $2,000.
In 2009, Amorello and one of his brothers co-founded Mayo Renewable Energy, a company focusing on solar energy.
On Monday August 9, 2010, a judge issued a warrant for Amorello’s arrest when he failed to show up in court to face a drunken driving charge. He was charged with drunken driving and leaving the scene after causing property damage.[4] Amorello was ordered to give up his driver’s license for 45 days and pay up to $1,300 in fines. He must also enter an alcohol treatment program.
Wikipedia
I remember listening to Jerry Williams on WRKO about all of the corruption that goes on in our lovely state. Those were the days.
‘Boondockle,’ sounds like something the late Mayor Menino would have said. Remember the, ‘Alcatraz around his neck,’?
Is Mihos in the death pool?
That’s all I want to know.
The word used was boondockle; boondoggle, the word you introduced is a different word. Back to the issue: What is a boondockle?
“He also had a very public and messy divorce with his wife in 2012”. That’s one way to end alimony payments. /s
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