CHARLES BAKER JR WANTS TO RUN FOR MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR Again IN 2014!!!!! VOTERS WILL LOOK AT HIS REAL RECORD AGAIN!!!!

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The Herald recently reported Charles Baker Jr. who left a multi-million dollar job at Harvard Pilgrim to take a massive cut in pay to be governor failed in his,attempt and wants to run again. I welcome his statements on all he has advocated for the insurers not in the interest in those in need of healthcare or businesses attempting to provide affordable health care to their employees.

 We were amazed that Baker was the main speaker in the 2012 election when a candidate for State Represemntive in the Spenser area  and others had him at a campaign event as a keynoter.  That candidate subsequently lost.


Imagine Baker in the race again!!!!! He is the face for ungovernment reforms,no accountability, no oversight inefficiency, waste, and mismanagement in government? Look at his dismantling record in the Human Services Secretariat State Delivery System that lacked care, compassion, concern,and fiscal accountability.


 As State Chief Budget Guru, look at his decision making and enabling the Big Dig to flourish with a lack of accountability and oversight. We need to hear all Baker did not do. SO MANY FAILURES TO GIVE CREDIT TO HIM AND EXPLAIN. The Harvard-Pilgrim almost demise with an insider state Government Bailout, that Baker became the head? Private Sector Worker to Government Manager back to Private sector Company once under his purview. Now he really wants to be Governor after failing in 2010….A man with no compassion, care and concern for the citizens tax dollars.

Once again, the Maasachusetts Republican Party will fail to win the Office of  Governor and give a gift to the Democrats in 2014 with Baker as their candidate.
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MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE, TUNNEL, SUBWAY, AND GAS TAX INCREASE PROPOSALS BEING  PROPOSED BY MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK  APPEARS TO BE A COVER UP FOR , WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE OF THE BIG DIG AND FAILURE TO FIX THE ROADS AND BRIDGES FROM THE PROMSED PREVIOUS GAS TAX INCREASE?


Former longtime Turnpike Chair Jack Driscoll wanted to pay off original bonds to make the road free. His financial promise was not carried out by his successors and they issued more bonds and unnneeded debt. Former House Chair of Transportation and now lobbyist Steven Karol stated in a debate measure before the House to stop legislation that would have guaranteed oversight of the Big Dig that the turnpike would not pay for the Big Dig!

During the heyday of the BIG DIG Karol and his cochair counterpart in the Massachusetts Senate Robert Havern battled against or did not listen to calls for accountability and oversight of the Big Dig. The plague of the Big Dig scheme was birthed by former Democratic Michael Dukais and his Transportation guru Fred Salvucci. Subsequent Republican Governors Weld, Cellucci, Swift, and Romaney along with their transportation czars Jim Carlin and Jim Kerasiotis elevated the effort to an art form.

This resulted in needed funds to fix unfit roads and bridges coming in from the Federal Government being diverted to the Big Dig. Their tandam efforts saw the Big Dig go from $2.3 Billion to $23+ Billion with almost not accountability and oversight. Massachusetts now has the most expensive unmonitored privitized construction project monument in history built that resulted in waste, fraud, and abuse, and bad construction.

We were promised that the Big Dig would be funded 90% with federal funds and was not. The last gas tax in 1991 was suppose to fix the roads and bridges needing repairs and did not.

 

House Chair SenatorThomas M McGee and Representative William M Straus rneed an education wake up call. First, their Transportation Committee should hire its own non political independent structural and civil engineers and an economist to do its own analysis and determine the real needs and not depend on the special interests to set policy. Also, when will Senator Baddour and Representaive Wagner learn that privatization with no accountability that they have allowed does not work? They have not learned from privatization failures of the Big Dig genius of Bechtel Parson or Modern Continental on Rte. 3.

Massachusetts needs another WARD type commission that came about during the government center scandal to get the real facts, precisely pinpoint blame for current failures to see where the monies went before any subway, toll or gas tax increases. The time is overdue for real accountability and oversight that guarantees no more waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal Highway Monies, Toll and Tunnel Collections, or Gas Taxes.

Newly Politically Appointed Massachusetts State Inspector General Glen Cunha now designated by Governor Deval Patrick  to investigate the State Drug Lab is wrong.

 I firmly disagree with the Massachusetts Office of Inspector General conducting the investigation.

The Inspector General offfice has been disfunctional for several years and needs an independent investigation of its agency for a failed mission.

The tenure of the imediate past Inspector Genera Gregory W.Sullivan and conduct of serious investigations for government waste,fraud, and abuse was liteally non existent.  Just look at the lack of a serious record on the Big Dig or Government Contracting of taxpayer dollars.

Any investigation being conducted by the Inspector General will be suspect at best. He is political appointee by the Governor, Auditor, and Attorney General all who have had responsibility to do oversight, funding, and staffing and have controls in place to prevent the current disaster at the Drug Lab that were not used.

A truly independent review team should be appointed with subpoena  powers and right to prosecute not under control of neither the Governor or Attorney General to report and take action needed to reform the State Drug Lab.