Barry? It's Pat.how Do Those Waiver Thingies Work?: ().when the highlight of your administration is the time you took out of the public spotlight so you could tend to your spouse's nervous breakdown. If this farce had a title, it would be: The Gang That Couldn't Keep Its Story Straight. Still, the political pit Patrick dug for himself on this one reaches halfway to China.Ĭertainly this episode demolishes the notion that the governor has finally acquired a working political antenna. Her withdrawal, the second exercise in damage control in recent days over the controversial, administration-engineered appointment, was done with the usual thank-yous and regrets and attempts at face-saving. He and state Senator Marian Walsh met the press outside his office, where Walsh announced that she wouldn't take the job as assistant executive director at the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority (HEFA). Yesterday, Governor Patrick finally put his shovel down. THE First Rule of Holes goes this way: When you're in one, stop digging. Patrick's political pit (Scot Lehigh, April 1, 2009, Boston Globe) Posted by Orrin Judd at 9:33 PM IT'S PRETTY SAD.:
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