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Weld's chief fund raiser, Peter Berlandi, is a consultant for a company working on the project...
...this because of one campaign fundraising official? It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. For behind Berlandi--and it seems reasonable to conclude, behind Weld--is Berlandi's employer, the San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation...
...Berlandi is Bechtel's consultant for the Central Artery project, a massive, federally subsidized highway construction project in Boston that is currently the largest public works undertaking in the country. (The Central Artery may yet prove to be one of the nation's largest public works boon-doggles. To date, it is six years behind schedule and roughly $2 billion over budget, with no immediate end in sight...
More importantly, the significance of Berlandi's Bechtel link goes beyond the campaign and the election. The fact that Berlandi works for Bechtel is not a cause, but a symptom, of a larger problem, for which the governor is not solely responsible...
...prevent companies like Bechtel from taking advantage of the U.S. political system in the future is the larger dilemma. As far as that issue is concerned, Bill Weld and Paul Berlandi are small players in a much larger game...