MA gubernatorial debate on CBS4 news: on Local Issues


Deval Patrick: Big Dig cost overruns are why people question taxes

PATRICK: The voters have voted to roll the income tax back and why wouldn’t they? They look at something like the Big Dig for example, billions of dollars in cost overruns, and structural defects we’ve known about for a long time and hardly any curiosity until the tragedy in July from our elected executives about where that money went. Small wonder people say, give me my money back.

REILLY: Well, Deval, you should say there’s a lack of curiosity to the people of my staff who are working around the clock, night and day, to get to the bottom of this, going through hundreds of thousands of records. They are making progress, substantial progress. The Big Dig, and the problem with that, is a series of Republican governors who have tied my hands. But despite that, we have recovered and saved $75 million of tax-payers’ money, plus six people under criminal indictment.

Source: MA gubernatorial debate on CBS4 news, moderator: Jon Keller Sep 13, 2006

Tom Reilly: Staff working round-the-clock making progress on Big Dig

PATRICK: The voters have voted to roll the income tax back and why wouldn’t they? They look at something like the Big Dig for example, billions of dollars in cost overruns, and structural defects we’ve known about for a long time and hardly any curiosity until the tragedy in July from our elected executives about where that money went. Small wonder people say, give me my money back.

REILLY: Well, Deval, you should say there’s a lack of curiosity to the people of my staff who are working around the clock, night and day, to get to the bottom of this, going through hundreds of thousands of records. They are making progress, substantial progress. The Big Dig, and the problem with that, is a series of Republican governors who have tied my hands. But despite that, we have recovered and saved $75 million of tax-payers’ money, plus six people under criminal indictment.

Source: MA gubernatorial debate on CBS4 news [Xref Patrick] Sep 13, 2006

  • The above quotations are from Massachusetts Democratic Primary gubernatorial debate on CBS4 news, moderated by Jon Keller, Sept. 13, 2006.
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