http://www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/http://chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/2006/07/duke-speaks-up.html The Duke speaks up
The Boston Globe briefly interviewed former Governor Dukakis today who noted that while Governor Romney has pursued his four year vendetta against Turnpike Authority Chief Matt Amorello, the roads and bridges of the Commonwealth have been falling to pieces thus undercutting The Viceroy's alleged commitment to highway safety.
What an entirely sane and sensible observation!
Good gawd but Mike still has it, he is seventy years old and still has a few good campaigns left in him!
It is not politically correct to say nice things about the Duke these days but there you have it...every pot-hole from here to North Adams is a little monument to Romney's superficial stunt oriented governing style.
To which Humble Elias will only add, that the roads in Belmont, Romney's nominal home town are among the worst in Middlesex County. Some of them invite comparison to the cratered wasteland that is the Sea of Serenity on the Moon.
- posted by Elias @ 7:18 AM
Globe link (Elias doesn't do links;-)):
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=print Dukakis, the last Democrat to hold the Massachusetts governor's office, told a television interviewer last night that he had urged Governor William F. Weld, a Republican, to ask Frederick P. Salvucci, transportation secretary under Dukakis, "to stay on and run that project for you." "Well, he didn't do that," Dukakis said of Weld on WGBH's "Greater Boston."
"So we've had a series of people over there who aren't bad people," Dukakis said, "but they didn't have anywhere near the kind of skill and the qualifications I mean Salvucci's got two degrees from MIT. He's got political skills coming out of his ears. He's done incredible work. I mean if Fred Salvucci had run that job . . . it would have been done in half the time and at half the cost."
Salvucci was transportation secretary from 1983 to 1991.
Dukakis also had harsh words for the current Republican governor, Mitt Romney. He called the Legislature's decision to hand him authority over the tunnel inspections absurd, saying that highways and bridges around the state have been crumbling during his administration.
"You know Matt is not responsible for Route 9," Dukakis said of Matthew J. Amorello, the Turnpike Authority chairman. "He's not responsible for this fiasco at the Esplanade where that tunnel, which could have been repaired 10 years ago for a few million bucks, is now going to cost us $100 million and stop traffic on Storrow. This is Romney's responsibility."
Sweet sanity.