A Farewell to Carole Doris (Metra Board Chairman)

[Mr. Railman]

http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2011/04/Metra%20chairwoman%20resigns%

20as%20feds%20lift%20ban%20on%20funds%20for%20agency.aspx

 

The Federal Transit Administration admits to underfunding Metra, and The Cairwoman of Metra is deciding to leave. The reason for the hold back: Phil Pagano. 

 

He really screwed up good. You can't hide things for ever.

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2011/04/Metra%20chairwoman%20resigns%20as%20feds%20lift%20ban%20on%20funds%20for%20agency.aspx 

 Just coupled that link together so iti works better . . .

[billio]

Two comments:

Carol Doris's tearful farewell, I suspect, was not the sort of parting from METRA she envisioned when she came to to that agency to head up its board.

Regarding the notion that one cannot cover things up forever, Pagano disagreed, right up to the last, delicious (for Pagano haters -- my spies tell me the boy wasn't universally loved) couple of weeks in his life.  Given that so much routinely gets covered up by Chicago politicians, it's difficult to see why Pagano didn't think himself another link in a long and inglorious line of self-entitled Chicago politicians and agency heads.  Moreover, there existed at METRA no countervailing oversight, no mechanism to correct internal abuses; if you were allied with Pagano and his pals, or enjoyed a strong patron, you could get away with an awful lot.