1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 2: He's a Republican candidate for the Commonwealth. Brian Shortsleeve, always 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: associated with the MBTA, is with us this morning, Brian 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: short Sleeve, how do you rebottl William Weld for two 5 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 2: thousand and twenty five, I'll. 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 3: Be with you. I'm a surveillance listener every morning at 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 3: seven am. 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: Now Here's what I can tell you is you. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 3: Know this state of Massachusetts a state I love, I've 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 3: been in all my life. We have a history of 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 3: electing Republican governors, you know, Bill Weld, Charlie Baker, Mitt Romney. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: I think Massachusetts works better with balance. It works better 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: when you have a businessman in the corner office. I'm 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 3: a businessman. I spent most of my life building businesses. 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 3: I run a venture capital firm. We help small businesses. 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: Grow in scale. And you know, businessmen have to balance 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: a budget. 18 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 3: You know, they live in the real world, and I 19 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: think we need some in the corner office now. 20 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: Now, who knows how to how to create jobs? 21 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: Is mister Trump? It it vanded for you within Elizabeth 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: warrens Massachusetts or do you run away from the president. 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: You know, this race is going to be about local issues. 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 3: It's going to be about more Heally's failed records. Governor, 25 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 3: I mean, let me tell you some about Massachusetts. We 26 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 3: haven't created a single private sector job in this state 27 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: since January of twenty three. 28 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: Think about that, Not a single private sector job. It's 29 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: a stunning number. 30 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 3: This is a state that between twenty ten and twenty 31 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: twenty was the fastest growing state in the Northeast and 32 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: was always at. 33 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: The top around job creation. But there's been a huge 34 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: change here. It is due to packs and spend policies. 35 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: Governor Heally ran on the largest tax sit in state 36 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 3: history in twenty two and we're now seeing the effects 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 3: of that. 38 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: Is ourn oldest Chapman pitching for the Red Sox a 39 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 2: private sector job? 40 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: I don't know, Bryan, Brian, what's for you? 41 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 4: Kind of heading into this ratio, what's the top talking 42 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 4: point for you? What's the number one itle on your agenda? 43 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm a marine officer, spent four years in 44 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 3: the more after college. 45 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm a businessman. 46 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: I know how to create jobs, i know how to 47 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: balance budgets. So my focus is getting the state and 48 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: moving again from a private sector standpoint. 49 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: What that means. It means cutting taxes. 50 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 3: It means cutting fees, including all those state mandated fees 51 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: that are now running through people's electricity bills and making 52 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 3: the state. 53 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Too expensive to live in. 54 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 3: We've got five hundred people a week leaving Massachusetts. We've 55 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 3: got businesses and students leaving Massachusetts. We got to turn 56 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: all that around, and it starts with cutting taxes, cutting fees, 57 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: and then getting our state spending under control. 58 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 4: So we think about one of the big items in 59 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 4: the news here has been in your town of Boston. 60 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 4: Harvard getting a lot of challenges from the Trump administration 61 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 4: as it relates to funding of some of the research 62 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 4: they do at Harvard. What's your view on that. 63 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I go back a long way at Harvard. 64 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 3: I went to Harvard as an undergrad and I went 65 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 3: on an ROTC scholarship. So when I was at Harvard 66 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 3: in the mid nineties, the faculty was trying to run 67 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 3: that campus, run that program, that ROTZI program off campus, 68 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: and terminate relations with it. So that was one of 69 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: my early political fights in life, was the fight to 70 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 3: protect ROTC at Harvard. So as we look at Harvard, 71 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: you know, you look at Harvard today you know, Harvard's 72 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: a critical part of our local economy, as is BU 73 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 3: and MIT. What I would tell you is, I think 74 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 3: we need a governor that can have a seat at 75 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: the table and can sit down with this administration and 76 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 3: get to a good outcome for Harvard and MIT and 77 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: be you here, and I'll tell you what's not helpful. 78 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: What's not helpful As a governor who is grand standing, 79 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: who's going on CNN and the New York Times and 80 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: poking the president in the eye. I don't think that's 81 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: good for Harvard. I don't think that's good for Massachusetts. 82 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 2: Across this nation. Bloomberg Surveillance who welcome all of you 83 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: today special good morning to ninety two nine FM in Boston. 84 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: Joining us Short Sleeve of the MBTA, Brian short Sleeve. 85 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: He's the latest candidate for governor, a Republican from the 86 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. What are the skill sets that the 87 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: MBTA you have? It will make Democrats and independence vote 88 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 2: for you that the present governor doesn't have. What's the 89 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: process skills step you learned trying to keep the traffic 90 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: straight at ken Moore Square. 91 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: Well, I stepped into the NBTA. 92 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 3: It was after the snow Mageddon of twenty fifteen, there 93 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 3: were one hundred inches of snow on the ground and 94 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: that system had failed. Governor Baker asked me to take 95 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 3: a couple of years of my life away from the 96 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 3: business world and step in. 97 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: It gave me a mission. 98 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: His mission was balance the budget, get the capital spending moving, 99 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 3: and rescue the Green Line Extension project. 100 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: So I think what I. 101 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 3: Demonstrated in those two years was the toughness of a marine. 102 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: I'm a fighter. 103 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: I know how hard it is to drive change in 104 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 3: big public agencies like the TEA, and. 105 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of our record there. 106 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 3: We developed, We delivered the first balanced budget the TEA 107 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: in more than a decade. We delivered record low operating 108 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: expenses in that green Line Extension project, which today Tom 109 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 3: will take you from downtown crossing right out to Tufts University. 110 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 3: It's a great project that was dead in the water 111 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: back in twenty fifteen. The FEDS had funding, it was 112 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 3: a billion dollars overdue, and we got it done and 113 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: turned around. 114 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 2: I cut to the Chase Bill Well, didn't have to 115 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 2: deal with woke Boston. You have to deal with woke Boston. 116 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: You know, the people's republic in Nantucket. You know the 117 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: drill better than I do. Brian short sleeve. How are 118 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: you going to get woke Massachusetts to vote for a 119 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: Republican this time around? 120 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: Well, Massachusetts does better with balance, and I'll tell you 121 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 3: historically having a Republican governor in the corner office has 122 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: been a good thing for the state. 123 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm traveling everywhere, I'm talking to voters. 124 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 3: I'm getting a great response from donors, and what they're 125 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 3: telling me is, we got to cut taxes. We got 126 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 3: to cut spending, we got to cut fees, we got 127 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 3: to get the fiscal house in order here because it's 128 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 3: become too expensive to do business in Massachusetts and that's 129 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: what's driving people and businesses out of the state. 130 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: So I think people want change. We want to go 131 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: back to being a growth state. 132 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 3: We don't want to be tied with Illinois for the 133 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 3: lowest private sector job growth in the country, and unfortunately 134 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 3: that's where we sit today. 135 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 2: Nobody cares. We just head you on for one question. 136 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: Should Devers play first? 137 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 1: I would say yes, but that's a very controversial question. 138 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: That's why we're asking. We're trying to make news here, Brian, 139 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: I say yes, there we go. 140 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 3: They're pain enough. 141 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: He's killing it. What comeback? 142 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 3: Yeah? 143 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Brice short sleeve, thank you so much, of course, 144 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: with the MBTA forever in Boston and now candidate Republican 145 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: candidate for governor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.