Nov 27, 2009 10:04 pm US/Eastern
Keller's Top Local Turkeys of 2009
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
Each year, WBZ's Jon Keller celebrates the holidays by narrowing down the Top Turkeys from the past year. There is normally an abundance to choose from, and Jon found 2009 to be no exception.
PIKE TURKEYS
As bad as your Thanksgiving commute may have been, it couldn't have been worse than what Mass Pike drivers
suffered through on Easter Sunday last April. It was near gridlock for hours mainly because there weren't enough toll takers on duty.
Among the turkeys responsible for that nightmare were Pike Director Alan LeBovidge and his boss, Jim Aloisi, whose botched planning fueled the disaster.
They're both gone now. Don't forget the man who hired them, Governor Deval Patrick. He's still here - for now.
GOVERNOR'S WEB SITE
Speaking of the governor, he once touted
his web site as a key way of interacting with and empowering citizens. But the thing has become an online ghost town with little fresh traffic. They say they're in the process of replacing this virtual turkey with a new one.
ELDERLY DRIVER LOBBYISTS
There were no bigger turkeys this year than the lobbyists and activists who pressured the legislature to back off on requiring stricter testing for elderly drivers.
A year of carnage in the streets should have forced some common sense to prevail, but didn't.
HACK HOLIDAYS
Two final local turkeys: those
so-called hack holidays, Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day, enjoyed only by Suffolk County public employees at a cost of $5 million to beleaguered taxpayers. Dumping those is a no-brainer, right? Wrong. So far, they remain on the books.
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