First pay hike, then a tax hike – surprised ?
House Speaker Bob DeLeo had the operation on his stomach to take away his appetite — for food, that is.
His craving for taxpayer dollars, on the other hand, has gone totally out of control. He keeps gorging and gorging and gorging himself. He’s a greedy glutton for gelt.
He burps and he belches and then he grabs another wad of our cash with his hands and stuffs it into his bulging cheeks. Mistah Speakah can’t help himself, nor can his counterpart in the Senate, President Stanley Rosenberg.
It’s not so much an eating disorder as a stealing disorder. What’s going on right now at the State House is a full-blown epidemic of kleptomania.
These hacks on Beacon Hill are utterly out of control. And now the last fig leaf is gone — the payroll patriots have finally started talking about tax increases to support their cash jones.
Have they no shame? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
This tax talk is a trial balloon, except that trial balloons are usually sent up when the payroll Charlies suspect that their scheme could be shot down. Who’s going to stop these tax hikes? The RINO governor, Charlie “Tall Deval” Baker? Get serious.
Tall Deval is part of the cabal. This is like the old Winter Hill Gang. Zip Connolly was the FBI agent who was supposed to keep tabs on serial killers Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi, but they owned him. They made Zip come crawling to them when he needed cash.
At the State House, DeLeo and Rosenberg are Whitey and Stevie, and Tall Deval is Zip, the crooked cop who does what he’s told. Tall Deval is keeping tabs on them all right, wink-wink nudgenudge.
This was proposed by state Sen. Mark Montigny of New Bedford, who under the new rules just scored $50,000 in pay increases — as “assistant majority leader” he went from an extra $15,000 to $35,000, plus his stipends for being chairman of two phony-baloney committees, Senate Rules and Senate Joint Rules, each doubled from $7,500 to $15,000.
This, by the way, is the same Montigny whose name figured prominently in the 2014 federal corruption trial involving the Probation department. He got his girlfriend, who was 22 years younger than him, a hack job as a probation officer. Her prior job: part-time drawbridge operator.
So now to add up the votes, the Senate has a president, a president pro tem, a majority leader, three assistant majority leaders, a majority whip and two assistant majority whips.
What exactly are all these hacks counting, other than their own ill-gotten gains? Everybody’s going to vote the way they’re told to, if they don’t want to lose their own extra $20,000-$50,000.
All power in the Legislature is centralized now. The committee chairmen have no clout whatsoever. So each committee must now have a “vice chairman” to help the “chairman” with his arduous non-duties. That way, they’ve created another “leadership” position that they can use as a payoff.
As for DeLeo, the former fatty who recently had the bariatric procedure — I’m not sure if he had what’s called the sleeve, or whether it was a gastric bypass.
Gastric bypass, huh? Whatever it was, it worked. Too bad DeLeo didn’t also get the greed bypass. The gastric bypass is good for your blood pressure, the greed bypass for your soul.
Assuming, of course, that any of them up there actually have souls.