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[Lexingtonian]

I suppose you're not going to blame Ted Kennedy or Joe Moakley, who were the actual forces behind getting Boston the money back in '86 or '88 when Kerry was in his second or third year as the junior Senator indeed. Or the State House, which loaded up the thing with patronage folks and pushed Bechtel into hiring construction companies that apparently employ relatives of the legislators and give kickback contributions to them. That payout scheme to the North End and South End was probably also invented by Kerry, I'm sure.

I don't see you pointing out the extent to which Boston generally subsidizes Western Massachusetts, by the way. We Boston suburbanites have the pleasure of keeping you folks driving on asphalt at all. And you probably didn't have to drive the CA often enough to see the 10-lb rusty metal chunks falling off it into the main driving lanes, or the axle-breaking holes formed when ice broke out the concrete underlay in late winter freeze-thaw cycles.