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Amorello resigns

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Matthew Amorello announced his resignation this morning after losing the SJC hearing yesterday afternoon.

The resignation is effective August 15, though Amorello will continue to collect his $223K salary through February 15, 2007.

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    • and only if you’re somewhat incompetent and get the guv to hold a very public grudge against you…

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      Too bad we don’t get to fire the governor, too.

    • Amorello was so lawyered up that a six month severence probably saves money over him fighting it.

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      Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Matt.

      • I’m an employment lawyer (representing employees), so I see these deals all the time (although I haven’t had, and wouldn’t represent, a hack client who deserved to be fired and to pay us money for the privilege).  Someone from the state clearly made the calculation that it would be cheaper politically and financially to negotiate a severance deal than to drag this out in the courts for months and years, and Amorello’s lawyers made a similar calculation that the odds were against success in the long term, and then only after spending millions in attorneys’ fees that would be more than he could possibly get from suing.  So, a deal.

  3. what the significance of the February 15th date is?  Could it be when Fat Matt (and I’m an R) is fully vested in his bloated state pension?

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    If so, an outrage.

    • He quit BECAUSE – if terminated for cause you can have your pension taken away.

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      He’s been vested, and probably over 20 years, for a while.  In the Legislature a long time.

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      BTW – I’m sure Amorello Construction would have found a way to put him on the health plan, so I don’t think that’s the reason, and he was entitled to THAT before he ever set foot in the Pike.

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      When does he turn 55?

  4. Let me get this straight.  You are paid 1/4 of a million dollars a year to MANAGE and OVERSEE a department and it’s projects.  You are not capable of doing your job, Two people so far have been killed as a result of your palm greasing and lack of any conscience, and as punishment, you are asked to resign your job, get paid for six months so that you can collect your FULL 80% PENSION for the rest of your life, and I AM FOTUNATE enough to be able to help pay for that, along with paying for the cleanup of your GROSS INCOMPETENCE… 

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    … Oh, and let’s not forget that you have health coverage for the rest of your life as well (When so many honest hardworking competent people can not afford it).

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    Let’s see, Why would someone not take that deal, he walks away from any and all responsibility for fixing his mess, gets paid for six months, and then can collect a full pension.  GUESS HE REALLY ISN’T THAT STUPID AND INCOMPETENT AFTER ALL!!!!

  5. Out here, Romney did not do well with the voters after he pulled the rug out from under incumbent Jane Swift in the ’04 nomination derby that passes for a Republican primary in Massachusetts.  Now he has demonized a guy from the Worcester area – larger metro area where many more voters may consider Amorello a “local boy.”

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    Could this latest Republican infighting influence the voters in the upcoming election?  Romney obviously doesn’t care about Massachusetts voters, but is Healey considered an ally of Romney (or was he just using her as window dressing and a source of funds in ’04)?  Or does she have stronger ties to the more mainstream Amorello/Swift/Cellucci GOP network?  What has she said before today about whether Amorello should go?

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    By the way, I would not let Romney “chalk one up” for getting one guy to quit the MassPike.  If he wants to portray himself as a problem-solver, he should not be flitting off to Iowa. 

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