Jim Aloisi responds to Globe story about his sister - on a blog
By adamg - 3/18/09 - 7:31 am
The state transportation uberczar didn't like the Globe's story about his sister's alleged do-nothing legislative job, but rather than telling Globe reporter Andrea Estes that to her face, he posted his displeasure on Blue Mass. Group last night:
... The Globe story was unfair and inaccurate and clearly designed to take a shot at me through her. That story was disgraceful. ...
Strong words for the burg's paper of record from a guy who was given a chance to respond before the story went to bed, Adam Reilly writes.
Comments
Table-pounding followed by
Table-pounding followed by diversionary rhetoric. What an arrogant douche.
So his sister is a leader in
So his sister is a leader in the party, and he is a big wig in the party and yet she was in a job that was essentially a no show job. She asked , many times, for a change and was rebuffed? I dunno if I were her I would feel comfortable calling the former rep and telling her that Im her chief of staff and that she still has an office up and running in the state house. Why did the rep not know? This isnt about the rep she had a falling out with , its about the rep who doesnt know who she is! Thats my question.
Also I agree with one of the comments on the Blue Mass Group, 60,000 is allot of money for a salary in the State House, its almost as much as the reps make themselves. Someone making that much is pretty high up in some sort of hierachy, you would think it wouldnt go unnoticed. Heres the main question, when the new rep walked into his office and saw Aloisi did she have work she was doing or was she playing board games all day? Its very possible, to give her the benefit of the doubt, she was actually working, although I highly doubt it.
Heres the main question,
She was assigned to work for a politician who had already resigned the seat, and didn't know she existed. She may have been doing some "work," but it certainly wasn't her "job." Your state government if loaded with these people, salted away in different departments and commissions. You can generally recognize then by their relationship to someone else on the state payroll.
There should be a motto carved into the dome of the State House:
We Take Care Of Our Own.
Aloisi apologizes for 'impugning' Globe reporter
She's not really a disgrace, he murmurs.
impugning
I can never hear the word "impugning" without remembering the classic scene with Faye Dunaway in "Network."
(Everyone should see that film, so I'm not going to spoil it. And it's relevant to news.)