We asked a senior official in the Rendell Administration recently: "Why does the Governor put up with having his plan to lease the Turnpike trashed every day by the Turnpike Commission? Why did he appoint these guys only to let them stomp all over him?"
There was a silence on the line and then he said: "I'm tempted, I'm tempted...If I answered that question however..." and that was about it.
He seemed to be suggesting that they were dumb appointments, or that the Governor was weak in handling his appointees, or what... we're not sure - except he seemed to agree with the thrust of our question that there was something bizarre here.
The politics and governance of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission are extraordinary.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and Gov Rendell - a bizarre relationship 
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