Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "How a power struggle over a Massachusetts Turnpike toll hike jeopardized Boston's Big Dig funding" video.

  1. Political patronage. I knew Mihos. Utterly arrogant born into wealth. Quintessential example of privilege. Street named after him. At the end he lost his money to gambling, prostitutes, and resultant divorce settlement.
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  2. Romney promised that if elected governor -- he was pro-choice -- he wouldn't use it as a platform to run for president. Halfway through his term as governor he declared his candidacy for president as anti-choice.
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  3. Jordan Levy, Right-wing Republican talk show host and know-it-all. Mihos would run for governor with the usual bizarre Republican policies -- totally unrelated to reality.
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  4. Then Republican Mihos was booted from his patronage job, given him for his vote by a Republican. So he sued all the way to the highest state court -- he had plenty of money to throw at lawyers -- to get the "job" back and lost. That suit must have cost him a quarter-million.
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  5. Salvucci's vision was correct. Then the Republicans got into gov't.
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  6. Christy Mihos was born into wealth. His family owned a supermarket that charged the maximum in the market. Then he expanded it into a chain. Selling made his even more wealthy. And he never let anyone forget that he was "better than" those who weren't of his "class". And then he blew it on gambling and hookers.
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