Secretary of Transportation James Aloisi was forced to apologize yet again for his comments on the blog Blue Mass Group, where he took the Boston Globe to task for writing a story on the work status of his sister Carol Aloisi.
“[I]n an attempt to defend my sister – who I dearly love – I posted an ill-advised statement on Blue Mass Group where I wrongly impugned the integrity of the Boston Globe and its reporter Andrea Estes. I apologize for those comments and regret this error in judgment. I look forward to working with our partners in the Legislature to bring about meaningful transportation reform with renewed vigor and greater humility.”
Aloisi also again apologized to the legislative leadership for his remarks over the past several weeks.
“Since becoming Secretary of Transportation my passion for realizing the Governor’s reform efforts has caused me to use language I have later regretted. I have meant no disrespect to legislators or other officials, and I know that only through consensus and collaboration with the Legislature and others can we get ourselves out of the mess we have inherited.”
Aloisi had notably dissed Senate President Therese Murray by saying that “reform before revenue” was a “meaningless slogan”. He has apologized for that and other verbal gaffes almost as much as Republicans have apologized to Rush Limbaugh.
Aloisi, according to the Globe, refused to comment on the Globe story despite repeated Globe requests. And his being forced to apologize to the Globe today had to sting. (My speculation on the forced part). But the reality here is that for all of those folks out there who think that the antics on Beacon Hill should just be ignored, or that we can dismiss this nonsense as unimportant, just do not get it. People are up in arms, and no show or little show jobs, $175,000 jobs being handed out, and raises given willy nilly to House employees, destroy any chance of asking taxpayers to reach down deeper to fund this b.s. Not to mention municipal employees who are being laid off in droves, or being asked to take de facto pay cuts to keep their jobs. Shared sacrifice is supposed to be shared, not floated downstream to municipal employees only.
Read the original Globe story here.
Bill Manzi.com 
Your Honor,
The Great and General Court of Massachusetts, along with the administration, is corrupt right up to it’s righteous neck. Aloisi is just scamming the system for himself and his sister.
We are paying millions of dollars for a host of scammers who have worked the extremely generous (corrupt)system for all its worth.
Our law makers have been quite generous to themselves with our taxes. You suffer the same on the city level, also at the largess of the state who won’t return the cost to the city.
Please forgive me, I got to go apologize to Rush.
Jules
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