Wait, there's still a light on at Boston 2024

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June 1, 2015 - The Democratic budget was essentially wrapped up and ready to go, when veteran Rep. John Frey, R-Ridgefield, announced his weekend conversation with a sword-rattling General Electric executive, who intimated that if planned corporate-tax escalations occurred, the Fairfield-based multi-national would decamp the state.

For this well-timed declaration, Frey, a member of the Republican National Committee, earns the honorary “Dick Belden Rat Patrol Award,” named for the late Republican lawmaker from Shelton, who every year would cull a shopping list of special-interest items nestled in Democratic budget.

By year’s end, a special legislative session adjusted some of the new business taxes and GE Chief Jeff Immelt was still ensconced in Fairfield, where they coalesced after fleeing its former huge manufacturing complex on Bond Street in Bridgeport, where as many as 20,000 employees once made electric outlets, electric fans, toasters, mixers before the profit margins — and jobs — moved overseas.

Meanwhile, the company is still negotiating with federal environmental officials over its decades of pollution in the Housatonic River from Pittsfield, Mass., to the Long Island Sound.

It's always about the roads...

please do you think they'll do something drastic to the Silver Line to improve it? And I will have pigs flying out of my butt at noontime today in Boston Common.

Also, anyone think GE employees are going to ride the SL? Nope. I bet GE will have private shuttle buses, shuttling people between their offices and North & South Stations.

is about as powerful as the "It's about improving the T!" argument was in pushing for the Olympics.

The jobs that are supposedly coming here are existing positions already filled by people who will be relocated from Fairfield, CT. So while there will probably be some lower-level positions requiring new employees who would be, ostensibly, locals, most of the 600 jobs aren't open to you, me, or anyone else because they are already filled.

Maybe someday down the line a local might be hired for one of those positions, but last I checked most corporate HQs don't fill their home offices by advertising in the local classifieds. They find the best people in the field no matter where they live, and move them to the local HQ.

Believing the thinly veiled lie that this means 600 more jobs for local people is the same as believing the thinly veiled lie that spending $4b on the Olympics means an improved T, when none of that $4b goes to that actual purpose.