It's Funny How That Happened...Part 2!
A Poll Driven Governor Changes His Tune On Reform?
"Meaningless slogan"
-Governor Patrick's Transportation Secretary James Aloisi, on "reform before revenue". (State House News Service, 3/4/09)
"The Legislature, 42%; The Governor, 32%"
- Results of a poll question asking "Who do you trust more to solve the state's economic problems - the Governor or the Legislature?" (Suffolk University, 3/25/09)
"What we have right now is just not good enough."
-Governor Deval Patrick on the Transportation reform bills in the legislature, six weeks after his transportation secretary called "Reform before revenue" a "meaningless slogan."
(Boston Globe, 4/14/09)
Updated! Governor now claims he opposes sales tax without "reform."
"I've always been about reform before revenue, but it's more than that, it's change before revenue."
-Governor Deval Patrick today on why he threatened to veto a sales tax, despite his support of a gas tax.
(State House News Service, 4/27/09)
A Poll Driven Governor Changes His Tune On Reform?
"Meaningless slogan"
-Governor Patrick's Transportation Secretary James Aloisi, on "reform before revenue". (State House News Service, 3/4/09)
"The Legislature, 42%; The Governor, 32%"
- Results of a poll question asking "Who do you trust more to solve the state's economic problems - the Governor or the Legislature?" (Suffolk University, 3/25/09)
"What we have right now is just not good enough."
-Governor Deval Patrick on the Transportation reform bills in the legislature, six weeks after his transportation secretary called "Reform before revenue" a "meaningless slogan."
(Boston Globe, 4/14/09)
Updated! Governor now claims he opposes sales tax without "reform."
"I've always been about reform before revenue, but it's more than that, it's change before revenue."
-Governor Deval Patrick today on why he threatened to veto a sales tax, despite his support of a gas tax.
(State House News Service, 4/27/09)
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