Thursday, April 02, 2009

Joanie lays down the law...

The Boston Globe's own Joanie Vennochi almost discusses policy today with respect to the Governor's plan to merge the Massachusetts Health & Education Facilities Authority with the Massachusetts Development Finance Authority...at least until she gets to this howler:
Maybe it's a bad idea, maybe it isn't. Who knows for sure? A public debate on the merits would be welcome. At the moment, all that's clear is that each entity has a vested interest in maintaining its empire, the better to remain a comfortable repository for the politically connected of any given gubernatorial era.

WHADDYA MEAN "who knows for sure"??? What kind of a cop-out is that??? Geez Joanie just hold your nose and jump! The cold water won't kill yuh!
The reason we have so many quasi-independent agencies is simple and diabolical, a string of Brahmin GOP Governors with Mayflower'd names wanted to seed solid republican loyalists into the state work force. Democrats within and without the legislature went alone with all this mishaugas as it created a pool of entirely legal patronage ...and this process has gone on for over half a century.
Regrettably Governor Patrick falls heir to it at the worst of times, a recession.
An argument can be made that a top down review of all authorities and agencies is in order but the process has a fifty plus year history and such an audit will take time and money.
Rome wasn't burn'd in a day folks....

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