Fair and Balanced II
An exchange that Mitt Romney had with a reporter. The reporter is lecturing him on transportation. Here it is:
Reporter: With so much unknown, economically, when it comes to Commonwealth woes, with the dollar amount on the Big Dig repairs, and anything that’s found in this, stem to stern, that you…unknown, with outside agencies saying that almost every transportation agency in the state is facing a budget deficit, and with your own transportation finance commission recommending keeping the western tolls in place, among a number of different options, why then is the administration foregoing possible revenue, and actually adding to the transportation burden that the Commonwealth, outside of…
MR: Do you have a point of view on this?
Reporter: Well, I represent a number of people, Governor.
MR: No, I represent the people. You’re supposed to be unbiased.
You tell ’em, Mitt.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
