Sorry, Charlie doesn't cut it! Dream Team Fumbles....BIG TIME!

If Richard L. Taylor was an embarrassment in 1992, maybe someone on Charlie Baker's staff could have checked.....ya know? the internet? a google search?

Is this what we have to look forward to at a Baker Tea Party?


Charlie Baker’s Transition Team Loses Ex-DOT Chief Who Owes $600K in Taxes

Richard Taylor, second left, stands with Governor William Weld and other officials at a press conference in 1990. At the time, Taylor served as transportation secretary.

By Ellen O’Leary

Boston.com Staff

November 15, 2014

 

 

One of the men tapped to play a key role in Governor-elect Charlie Baker’s transition resigned unexpectedly on Friday. Richard L. Taylor, a one-time state transportation secretary under former Governor William Weld, owes over $1 million in unpaid taxes and business judgments, according to The Boston Globe.

 

Internal Revenue Service and state Revenue Department records indicate $596,262 in outstanding tax liens. Add that sum to court judgments from a failed Popeyes franchise, a house that was foreclosed upon three years ago, and the recent resignation and you get déjà vu for Taylor: In 1992, critics called Taylor’s financial woes an embarrassment to Weld. Taylor resigned the post after only two years.

 

Baker’s aides said that they and the governor-elect were unaware of Taylor’s recent money problems.

 

They also explained that, as a member of Baker’s transition team, Taylor operated as a “brainstorming entity” and that, as an all-volunteer advisory committee, transition team members do not undergo the rigorous vetting process for government-appointed officials.

 

 

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