The $61 Billion Shell Game: What Mike Minogue Isn’t Telling You
Massachusetts voters demanded accountability. Politicians are selling them something else. And there’s one number missing from the conversation: 0.15%.
By FrankTheFixer Dispatch
Imagine hiring an accountant to investigate your family’s $100,000 annual budget, only to discover that the audit everyone’s arguing about concerns roughly $150 of it.

For my friends who cite the California governor's primary as the reason to vote no on Question 3, the math is clear. There was no way the Republicans could have placed first and second in that primary.

California has a much larger share of Republicans, compared to Massachusetts.

California:
Registered Republicans: 5,747,193 (24.8%) out of 23,164,977 voters.

Massachusetts:
Enrolled Republicans: 407,768 (7.9%) out of 5,184,354 voters.

The Republicans won about one third of the total vote for Governor in the California primary. Here are the results:
Xavier Becerra (D)     2,591,855 (28.1%)
Steve Hilton (R)          2,277,315 (24.7%)
Tom Steyer (D)           2,110,704 (22.8%)
Chad Bianco (R)         941,701 (10.2%)
Katie Porter (D)          403,908 (4.4%)
Matt Mahan (D)          327,537 (3.5%)
Antonio Villaraigosa (D)        104,107 (1.1%)
Other candidates         480,367 (5.2%)

Take the vote total for the two Republicans
2,277,315 + 941,701 = 3,219,016 (34.8%)
and divide those Republican votes equally between the two candidates
3,219,016 ÷ 2 = 1,609,508 (17.4%)
the Republicans wouldn’t have enough votes to place in the top two. Conclusion: the only way Republicans can advance out of an all-party primary is to unite behind one candidate.

Under our current system, since 1990, Massachusetts has elected four Republican Governors: Bill Weld, Paul Cellucci, Mitt Romney, and Charles Baker. California elected only two Republicans, Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Governor Healey announced that the two new Cape Cod Bridges will take 10 to 12 years to be completed.

Take a look at the plaques on the old bridges next time you drive to or from the Cape, which say
they started construction in 1933 and finished in 1935.

Almost 100 years ago they built them in two years, but our current government, with all their high-tech machines and advanced technology, is going to take 5 to 6 times as long? Are our leaders 6 times more inefficient? Six times more corrupt? A combination?

We've seen this movie before and know how it's going to end: missed schedules, massive increases and cost overruns, and a product that will be dropping chunks of concrete into the canal and boats below.

Time for more effective management and control in both our state and federal governments!