Governor Deval Patrick Thursday strongly denied he was forcing any of his departing four Cabinet secretaries to leave, including two who have been caught up in recent controversies.
At a State House press conference where both the current and incoming secretaries appeared, Patrick said that in an effort to prevent his administration from falling into a lame duck malaise, he had asked all his secretaries to give him a two-year commitment or to leave.
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Is this guy serious.
Patrick: "“There’s going to be, in large organizations, things that go wrong . . . and the leaders who matter and the ones who succeed, just like each of these, are the ones who step up and fix things that go wrong,’’ Patrick said."
WOW, there it is right from the horse's mouth - successful leaders are those who setup to failures that developed under their watch. Their utter and absolute responsibility for the failures...whoa, the Gov doesn't want to be cruel. After all, it's not like the private sector where gross incompetence has consequences! In his Administration, a leader can oversee gargantuan failures so spectacular they are national news for weeks, injuring hundreds if not thousands of the little people (i.e. taxpayers struggling in the private sector), and the Gov choses to measure the perps by their reaction to their own handiwork. This make sense to anyone else?
Doesn't it make you eager to see Patrick as a candidate to lead the largest organization in the world, the US federal government?
Whoever voted for this pinhead, how could you? Twice?