Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Now politics starts taking center stage

Governor Romney has scheduled a hearing to remove Amorello, the head of the Mass. Turnpike Commission. Amorello likes his job and has authorized public moneys to be paid to three law firms to help him keep it. I guess he feels that the public is so appreciative of the fine work he's done that it is quite willing to spend this money as well as continue to pay his $263,000 annual salary plus perks.

If this happened in Japan, Amorello would have fallen on his sword, particularly since he said that the accident was an anomaly and the tunnel would be open the next day. Now two weeks later, with the discovery yesterday of three loose bolts in the Ted William Tunnel, no one knows when the tunnels will be fully open.

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