Gov. Charlie Baker appeared to own up to the fact that he’s ultimately the guy in charge when it comes to the State Police and all its scandals of late, declaring on WGBH yesterday “stuff that goes on on my watch belongs to me,” as reported by SHNS’s Matt Murphy at Wicked Local. But you have to read the whole quote to get the context of what he’s also saying: Don’t blame me. Here are some of the quotes from Metzger’s story:
"State government is a very big enterprise. It's forty billion dollars, it's forty thousand employees. The executive branch is a big place. Stuff that goes on on my watch belongs to me, and what I would hope people would do would respect the fact that I can't possibly know everything about everything, but that once issues are raised we will do whatever we can to fix them and address them ... I've said many times that I don't think blame serves a lot of purposes. There were a lot of things we've fixed since we took office, and I got asked a lot, 'Well, whose fault is that,' and I try pretty hard not to get into that business.”
Democrats are having a field day with this one, as Gintautas Dumcius reports at MassLive.
Wicked Local
YOU'RE IN CHARGE CHARLIE! DID YOU MISS THAT PART?
THIS ISN'T LEADERSHIP.
WHERE WERE THE AUDITS?
CHARLIE BAKER ISN'T EVEN CALLING FOR INVESTIGATIONS. |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
| The old travel-and-training reimbursement scam ... |
| |
The Globe’s Matt Rocheleau and Kay Lazar and MassLive’s Dan Glaun have more details on how the State Police payroll chief allegedly clipped nearly $24,000 from agency coffers. It comes down to her allegedly transferring money disguised as travel-and-training reimbursements directly into her own personal bank account.
CHARLIE BAKER IS SO BUSY GLAD-HANDING AND FUNDRAISING, THE MEDIA HAS TO FORCE HIM TO DO HIS JOB.
THIS ISN'T LEADERSHIP!
DAY LATE CHARLIE!
|
| |
|
| |
| Meanwhile, Baker tries to put the brakes on hiring rail engineers with really bad driving records |
| |
From Andrea Estes at the Globe: “Governor Charlie Baker said Thursday that he is taking immediate steps to make sure Massachusetts commuter rail engineers with terrible personal driving records don’t jeopardize the safety of the millions of people who ride the rails each year.”
The T can definitely do a lot more to screen out bad drivers from its rail operators. But, as SHNS’s Andy Metzger reports at MassLive, the federal government is also part of the problem. He explains.
|
|
ANOTHER COMPUTER SCREW UP ON CHARLIE BAKER'S WATCH.
CAN'T CHARLIE FIND COMPETENT PEOPLE? |
|
| |
| Atlas shrugged: RMV sends out false license suspension notices to thousands of motorists |
| |
Speaking of motorists, driving records and the Baker administration: Remember that new computer system that the Registry of Motor Vehicles recently installed to get ready for the new ‘REAL’ driver’s licenses? The Atlas computer system has apparently spit out incorrect notices to nearly 10,000 motorists saying their licenses would be suspended due to unpaid fees. The Globe’s Joshua Miller and the Herald’s Dan Atkinson have the details on the Atlas “technical glitch.”
FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS AND TOO MANY DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH!
| Rumble on the Charles: Gertner vs. Dershowitz et al |
| |
Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge in Boston, has written in the New York Times that Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and lawyer Alan Dershowitz are just dead wrong for trying to link Robert Mueller with an infamous wrongful-imprisonment case in Boston. Gertner should know. She presided over the mobster-tied case against the government.
But what catches the eye of the Globe’s Mark Arsenault is how the dispute is pitting two Harvard Law School-tied attorneys, Gertner and Dershowitz, against each other, a sort of legal version of the Thrilla in Manila or Rumble in the Jungle of old. And it now looks like Rudy Giuliana may be indirectly getting involved, though he’s a mere NYU law grad. The NYT has more on the Rudy angle.
REPUBLICANS ARE POLITICIZING SEAN GANNON'S KILLING INSTEAD OF FINDING SOLUTIONS!
THE DEATH PENALTY IS NOT A DETERRENT.
ARE THEY DISCUSSING WHERE THOSE WEAPONS CAME FROM?
ARE THEY ASKING HOW GUN CONTROL MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED THOSE KILLINGS? NO!
WHEN THE RAW EMOTIONS AND ANGER OVER SEAN GANNON'S KILLING SUBSIDE, LET'S DISCUSS REAL SOLUTIONS AND PREVENTION.
|
| |
|
| |
| Baker says criminal justice reform bill could prevent another cop ‘assassination’ |
| |
Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday reiterated his support for the death penalty for cop killers, or “assassination of a police officer,” as he called it on WGBH, and said the package of criminal justice reforms he signed into law last week could help avoid future attacks in general on police officers, reports Tori Bedford at WGBH.
WGBH
CLICK ON LINK FOR MORE OR SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 
No comments:
Post a Comment