As Governor Deval Patrick merges the state’s transportation agencies in an attempt to reduce duplication and waste, a review of payroll records shows that his own administration presided over much of the growth in spending he must now rein in.
Isn't that nice? Nearly $130 million in additional spending at a time when people are being laid off in record numbers (like > 10% unemployment). There's a reason he's known as "Cadillac Deval", and not just because of the shiny new wheels he got immediately upon assuming office...
The news just gets better:
While former governor Mitt Romney’s last transportation secretary, John Cogliano, had three deputies. Patrick’s first transportation secretary, Bernard Cohen, had six, and Cohen’s successor, James A. Aloisi Jr., had eight. While Cogliano earned $120,000 a year, Cohen and Aloisi each made $150,000, as does Mullan.
Since Romney’s last year in office, the number of officials in the Executive Office of Transportation and MassHighway earning at least $100,000 a year more than doubled, from 16 to 37, records show.
In several cases, Patrick allowed a new manager to bring in his own staff without getting rid of the predecessor’s key aides.
How'd you like that kind of a perk? Your company gets bought out by a new company, but lets you keep all your old staff on? Nice! Can't figure out who to let go? Don't sweat it - leave 'em on the payroll. It's not like it's your money paying for it! Nothing like growing an already-bloated leviathan, eh?
I swear, sometimes on a quiet night here in Mass you can hear the pigs laughing it up in the farmhouse...
That is all.
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Just out of curiosity, do you think there's any real chance that Deval might lose next year?
Very doubtful. It's not like the Republicans have anything even remotely resembling a candidate at this point.
Shit, instead of Teddy's seat maybe I'll go up against Deval... ;)
Say -- wasn't the Turnpike supposed to be free?
That will be the day.
The Donks didn't exactly have a viable presidential candidate last year, Jay, and they won anyway.
But they had Hopenchange!
And ran against John McCain, too...
Right. Thus proving that to win, you don't need a good candidate. You just need a less bad candidate in the current political environment than the opposition has to offer. So all you need down there in Massland is a candidate who is less bad than Cadillac Deval. Seems to me that a lack of name recognition would probably be a good thing, in these circs.
What about the gal who ran against him last time? She got any credibility left?
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