Romney is a Fraud

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After the Blizzard of 2005, the Department of (MDC job) Conservation and Recreation (DCR) was criticized for failing to adequately clear its roads and boulevards. (source: Boston Globe, 2/6/2005)

A DCR spokesman took full blame for the poor job performance, saying "the buck stops here. This is something we have responsibility for. We admit here was an operational failure. We're going to take corrective action." (source: Boston Globe, 2/5/2005)

The corrective action turned out to be immediate. The agency commissioner, Katherine Abbott, was forced to resign. (source: Boston Globe, 2/5/2005) (So much for being a team player. Guess Team Reform forgot how Abbott iced John Kerry's request for a fireworks permit during the Democratic National Convention. (source: Boston Globe, 7/9/2004))

Abbott's demise was predicted in 2003 by a spokesman for an environmental advocacy group who said upon the occasionof her appointment that "whoever takes the (Commissioner's) job will be facing some challenges. For nearly 10 years, we've expected our commissioners to do more with less, and that can't continue forever without having a negative impact on our beaches, our parks, and our other recreational resources." (source: Boston Globe, 9/16/2003)

The Department's operating budget has been reduced by 37 percent since 2001, and its snowplows shared between urban and suburban divisions. (source: Boston Globe, 2/6/2005)

However Romney's $150,000-a-year Loathsome Spokesman disagreed that the Department's shortcomings were money-driven saying "DCR has the resources it needs to do its job. (Fraud) Governor Romney insists on high standards of performance and accountability in government, particularly when public safety is involved. It was time to make a change in leadership." (source: Boston Globe, 2/6/2005)

And Fraudo agreed, having said "our focus has to be on public safety. That comes first, and there really can't be any latitude on that front." (source: Boston Globe, 2/5/2005)

At least no latitude that is not sanctioned by Romney. Because according to the Commonwealth's newest former-DCR Commissioner, (and confirmed by Romney's $150,000-a-year Loastsome Spokesman), Team Reform used tax-payer dollars, including monies that had been appropriated for public safety to DCR, to help pay for a Super Bowl rally for the New England Patriots. (source: Boston Herald, 2/6/2005)

Let's scroll those past one more time:

--"Our focus has to be
on public safety.
That comes first,
and there really can't
be any latitude on that front."--

--Team Reform used tax-payer dollars,
including monies that had been
appropriated for public safety to DCR,
to help pay
for a Super Bowl rally
for the New England Patriots.--

Furthermore, at least one Boston official is blaming the unplowed VFW Parkway sidewalks on Team Reform's diversion of monies, saying "if they hadn't spent (so much on) the Patriots fans, those sidewalks would been cleared." (source: Boston Herald, 2/6/2005)

Wait a minute. Team Reform claims that there can't be any latitude from public safety, and fires a commissioner for contributing to a lack of public safety, but has admitted that it diverted monies that may have contributed to a lack of public safety?

So whose bright idea was it to divert state public safety tax dollars to pay for a sports rally?

Have they been asked to resign?

And how many other state agencies were forced to pony up state taxpayer funds so Willard Mitt could hob-hob with other jock sniffers? Excuse us, alleged jock sniffers.

Note to the Fraud Governor: the next time you whack someone, make sure they won't whack you back - at least not during the same news cycle.