Frank Phillips’s article “Road may get rocky for Patrick” (Page A1, Nov. 28) tells the sad but true story of Governor Patrick’s leadership — there is none.
Deval Patrick is our state’s chief executive. He is responsible for the people in his administration and for the operating divisions under his command. For CEOs in the private sector, scandals end careers. Apparently this is not the case for the CEO of Massachusetts.
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Our governor has presided over the most difficult economic times in our history, and the state continues to push ahead. Simplicity might say that Massachusetts is alone and the rest of the country is separate, but let's get real. I, also, have led medium-sized organizations, and I think those times have resulted in better organizations and employees with very high satisfaction for their work. I, unlike Mr. Phillips I assume, spent over half my time out in the world, solidifying partnerships, trying to influence the many external factors that so heavbily affected our organixation, serving as a visible part of the whole industry to keep us relevant and on the cutting edge. Deval is doing this, and I'm a highly satisfied 'employee."
Actually he is spending most of his time going around telling people that his friend is awesome...none of that did or had the potential to do anything for Massachusetts. When times are tough, good leaders buckle in and focus on making things better or trying anyway. Deval chose to be a cheerleader for Obama in hopes that if things go too far south here, he will have another position lined up.
Ha ha ha ha!!!! What planet do you live on? Failed CEOs get multi-million dollar golden parachutes. Name one Wall St. executive whose firm tanked - bringing down the rest of our economy - who isn't rolling in twice the clover he had beforehand. Accountability my Aunt Fanny!!! Carly Fiorina crashed two companies and is still on the A-list of business celebrities.
Seriously, both the drug lab and meningitis scandals can be traced directly to conservative anti-government policies. First, budget cuts, which could have been avoided with robust stimulus aid to states, resulted in unfilled supervisory vacancies at the state lab. Second, the idea of regulating rapidly expanding compounding pharmacies happened to arise smack in the middle of the GOP-controlled Congress and Bush White House. New reguluations? Horrors, NO!
In the evident absence of adequate budget resources and regulatory tools, how was any Governor supposed to prevent these disasters? Go ahead and tell me a story of how simple "leadership" would have helped?