Myths, Smokey Mirrors and “So What?”: The Turnpike’s Argument Against Toll Equity
Thursday, August 6th, 2009The Turnpike Authority’s legal team was out in full force today to try to quash the tollpayer rebellion for fairness in their midst as the Toll Equity class action lawsuit burst back into the courtroom.
Much like their strongly-worded statement earlier this week at the behest of Governor Deval Patrick (you remember, the one where they called our claims “baseless” and chided us – the tollpayers – for wasting cherished Turnpike dollars), the Turnpike came ready for a fight.
Turnpike lawyer Brian Kaplan. tried to throw everything including the kitchen sink at our attorney, Jan Schlichtmann – including baseless personal attacks on Jan, myths about this lawsuit shutting down the highway and lots of financial smoke and mirrors. He summed it up best when he said of tollpayer claims of unfairness, “So what?” (more…)
