Tuesday, April 14, 2009

MassGOP Research Briefing

It's Funny How That Happened...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)