BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick tried to answer his critics by appearing on conservative talk radio.
Patrick, a Democrat, on Thursday visited Howie Carr’s talk show on WRKO-AM. They clashed over how quickly the state can remove toll booths from the Massachusetts Turnpike – a pet cause of Carr’s.
Carr complained that a reorganization of the state’s transportation bureaucracy, including the elimination of the Turnpike, was a “shell game” because the booths remain.
Patrick vigorously defended the move.
“It is absolutely not a shell game,” said Patrick, his volume rising to meet Carr’s. “The toll booths will come down when the bondholders say they can come down.”
Carr opened with a question he asks on the air and in his column in the Boston Herald: “Where’s my property tax cut?”
Patrick replied, “It’s coming.”
He noted he has tried many means to let cities and towns cut their property tax burdens.
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