In his most extensive comments on the subject to date with Blue Mass Group, Governor Deval Patrick defended his pick of Jim
Aloisi by saying he "knows where the bodies are buried". Here's what the the Governor had to say about his favorite grave digger.
One thing that is helpful to me is that he[Aloisi] knows where the bodies are buried. And you know, the sad reality is that we have to dig up a lot of those bodies, and bury them properly. You know, I wish it were more glamorous, but this is an unbelievably complicated thing. I mean, the financing is complicated enough! But you have layered on that all kinds of politics. You know, there are some agencies ... where the nickname is that of their legislative sponsor. And people in communities know that if you want something from that agency, like a job [for a relative] ... There are all kinds of guardians and old relationships, and arrangements that were arrived at to solve some problem that you can't know about unless you were there. All that stuff needs to be unwound and brought into the sunlight. And it is so helpful to have someone who understands all that to be on the team and to be on our side.
Deval Patrick campaigned on opening up government, isn't that exactly what the much ballyhooed "civic engagement" model was? If we are to believe that Governor Patrick truly meant that, I'm assuming he is going to have a Secretary Aloisi write a report detailing where all the bodies are. In the spirit of open government I would expect nothing less of a Patrick administration appointee.
If Aloisi doesn't come clean, I would hope that Martha Coakley would go to the courts to force Aloisi to do so. We know have it on good authority, the Governor, that Jim Aloisi in fact does now things about the Big Dig that we the ordinary taxpayer don't.
Governor Patrick, when can we expect that report? |
