TWO WORDs

[Aratus]

(two words)

YO! CAMPAIGN

BIG DIG
SLAM MITT
TRUST ME
IT's SIMPLE
LOOK CLOSER

[Cinderella]

Hey aratus, are you from Massachusetts?

[Kade]

Hey aratus, are you from Massachusetts?

Aratus is from Massachusetts. These pro Romulan superpac attacks are drowning out everything. It's insufferable here right now.

She is right though... "Dig" deeper -- look into the Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff extension.

[RonRules]

YO! CAMPAIGN
BIG DIG
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I presume you're referring that the Boston tunnel cost overrun. Don't assume people know that. Please share the data and both the grassroots and the campaign will make sure the world knows.

[Cinderella]

does anyone from massachusetts have any info regarding the delegate process in the state??????????//

[Cinderella]

http://www.politicolnews.com/mitt-romney-2012-issues/


A huge campaign issue for him every achieving the GOP nomination, is his record as a businessman who exhibited poor judgment, wasting billions on a tunnel that was faulty and constructed with substandard materials.

As Governor of the state of Mass., Romney headed up the disastrous Big Dig of the tunnel in Boston’s Fort Point Channel. The major capital overruns in the expenditures of this project indicates Mitt Romney’s lack of judgement and his careless misplaced leadership skills as an intelligent businessman.

The tunnel was only 3.5 miles long to reroute the Central Artery Interstate 93 into the tunnel, plus construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel, The Leonard Bridge, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway where the I-93 elevation existed.

The initial projected cost was 2.8 billion to be completed in 1998, but the end result after criminal investigations revealed shoddy materials and four deaths were much, much higher. The final costs when the Big Dig project was completed in 2008, ten years too late, was 14.6 billion dollars which was five times the initial cost projections. After you calculate the interest on the tab, and make adjustments for inflation, the cost will likely be 22 billion dollars to the taxpayer. The cost will not be paid for until 2038 which is in another 27 years!
On July 10, 2006 a concrete ceiling panel of the tunnel weighing 12 tons fell onto a car killing a passenger and injuring the driver and the tunnel was closed for a year.

Through an investigation it was discovered that the tunnel was never designed to include ceiling panels that were badly constructed with faulty fasteners and Governor Romney was on vacation.

When he returned, he ordered the closure of the tunnel and then had to pay for a 20 million dollar survey of the safety of the tunnel, which was finally inspected from stem to stern. More problems were found with the ceiling fans, the fasteners and the contracted company that built the tunnel.

Thousands of leaks were found, substandard materials, problems with the frozen ground and lighting fixtures just to name a few discoveries. Just about everything in the tunnel had defects, problems and cost overruns plus a very badly executed capital investment project hailed by the overseer Mitt Romney, in the city of Boston the heart of the state.

Romney was implicated with accepting campaign contributions from that contractor, and bears the ultimate responsibility for causing a death. Further, a list of over 2000 maintenance problems over the next year were still an on going problem for Romney.

In May of 2008, another large contractor of the Big Dig McCourt Construction Company, pled guilty to charges of defrauding the government, by over-billing for three years and by lying about what work was done by workers at a higher rate of pay. McCourt was paid 245 million dollars for their work on the tunnel but that was not enough they also over charged $ 314,494.00 more. Yet another electrical company attempted the same practice and over billed by $80,000.00 that they were not entitled to receive payment.

In June 2008, the Modern Continental Corporation that had earned over 3.2 billion dollars and who were the largest contracting company that built the tunnel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company hid shoddy workmanship, and were held criminally responsible for the collapse of the ceiling in the tunnel.

The corporation attempted to protect its assets from further lawsuits which they knew were coming by filing bankruptcy protection. Another example of shoddy business decisions Romney made to work with such a contemptible company.

On August 10, 2011 a report from Engineers in Boston indicates a space under one section of the tunnel has opened and cannot be fixed. The soil during construction was apparently frozen, to keep it from collapsing and now under that soil is an opening. The repairs to this tunnel has cost taxpayers 15 million dollars in subsequent repairs, millions more due to the shoddy construction. The financial settlement to the family of the person who was killed was 28 million dollars and there were many lawsuits.

A major pipe also had to be replaced costing 1.2 million, plus this new problem which cannot be fixed. it has been 9 years of a financial fiasco for Bostonians who have had to put up with Romney’s mistakes.

So much for the Businessman in the Real Economy. If Mitt Romney mislead taxpayers on the Big Dig safety, he can hardly handle the whole USA economy and it speaks to his great problem of ethics and sound judgment.


Read more: http://www.politicolnews.com/mitt-romney-2012-issues/#ixzz1iV1Qw6e3

and boom goes the dynOmite!

[Aratus]

^this^

[Aratus]

Cinderella, when you find out, tell me in an email.
i filled out the online form and i am in a suburb
almost halfway between boston + worcester.
i have been mulling over a house seat run in 2014
or if i should try to run against senator john kerry.
we need to talk to some of the grassroots here
and also shemdogg. i didn't go to the sign party
but i might move hades and high water to get to
Tampa by late august. it would be cool to be there.

[Travlyr]

Sheesh ... thanks for this. And the media are asking Ron Paul if he is qualified to be president. Business experience my ass. With leaders like Romney... who needs friends? Sheesh.

[donnay]

I remember when this happened! Tragic! The woman who died was a mother of three.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Site_Graphic/2006/07/17/1153159394_3375-1.jpg

"The best thing for me to do politically is stay away from the Big Dig -- just get as far away from that tar baby as I possibly can," ~Mitt Romney

[Aratus]

we as a state vote on march 6th on supertuesday.
the final touches on the tunnel were done under
mitt romney. we need the campaign to ask him the
questions christy mihos asked our ex~lt. governor.
the scandal let deval patrick win easily and readily.

[Tod]

from wikipedia...



Massachusetts State Police searched the offices of Aggregate Industries, the largest concrete supplier for the underground portions of the project, in June 2005. They seized evidence that Aggregate delivered concrete that did not meet contract specifications. In May 2006, six employees of the company were arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Immediately after the arrests, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced he would return $3,900 in political contributions from employees of Aggregate Industries.

[Aratus]

YO! CAMPAIGN

BIG DIG
SLAM MITT
TRUST ME
IT's SIMPLE
LOOK CLOSER


i feel its about time.
lets do this before
VIRGINIA! a.s.a.p!!!

[Aratus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Xp0P9eOo

[Indy Vidual]

from wikipedia...

Immediately after the arrests, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced he would return $3,900 in political contributions from employees of Aggregate Industries.

Wow, Mittens was really on the ball w/ a quick response.

[QuickZ06]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Xp0P9eOo

LOL!

[Aratus]

the local big dig is a really BIG DIG

[Aratus]

NOVA even went into the science and engineering behind it in classic episode

[Aratus]

Gentleman Mitt's ambitions impelled him to senate run in Utah.

[Aratus]

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