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Speaker 2: He's a Republican candidate for the Commonwealth. Brian Shortsleeve, always
Speaker 2: associated with the MBTA, is with us this morning, Brian
Speaker 2: short Sleeve, how do you rebottl William Weld for two
Speaker 2: thousand and twenty five, I'll.
Speaker 3: Be with you. I'm a surveillance listener every morning at
Speaker 3: seven am.
Speaker 1: Now Here's what I can tell you is you.
Speaker 3: Know this state of Massachusetts a state I love, I've
Speaker 3: been in all my life. We have a history of
Speaker 3: electing Republican governors, you know, Bill Weld, Charlie Baker, Mitt Romney.
Speaker 3: I think Massachusetts works better with balance. It works better
Speaker 3: when you have a businessman in the corner office. I'm
Speaker 3: a businessman. I spent most of my life building businesses.
Speaker 3: I run a venture capital firm. We help small businesses.
Speaker 1: Grow in scale. And you know, businessmen have to balance
Speaker 1: a budget.
Speaker 3: You know, they live in the real world, and I
Speaker 3: think we need some in the corner office now.
Speaker 1: Now, who knows how to how to create jobs?
Speaker 2: Is mister Trump? It it vanded for you within Elizabeth
Speaker 2: warrens Massachusetts or do you run away from the president.
Speaker 3: You know, this race is going to be about local issues.
Speaker 3: It's going to be about more Heally's failed records. Governor,
Speaker 3: I mean, let me tell you some about Massachusetts. We
Speaker 3: haven't created a single private sector job in this state
Speaker 3: since January of twenty three.
Speaker 1: Think about that, Not a single private sector job. It's
Speaker 1: a stunning number.
Speaker 3: This is a state that between twenty ten and twenty
Speaker 3: twenty was the fastest growing state in the Northeast and
Speaker 3: was always at.
Speaker 1: The top around job creation. But there's been a huge
Speaker 1: change here. It is due to packs and spend policies.
Speaker 3: Governor Heally ran on the largest tax sit in state
Speaker 3: history in twenty two and we're now seeing the effects
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 2: Is ourn oldest Chapman pitching for the Red Sox a
Speaker 2: private sector job?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Bryan, Brian, what's for you?
Speaker 4: Kind of heading into this ratio, what's the top talking
Speaker 4: point for you? What's the number one itle on your agenda?
Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm a marine officer, spent four years in
Speaker 3: the more after college.
Speaker 1: I'm a businessman.
Speaker 3: I know how to create jobs, i know how to
Speaker 3: balance budgets. So my focus is getting the state and
Speaker 3: moving again from a private sector standpoint.
Speaker 1: What that means. It means cutting taxes.
Speaker 3: It means cutting fees, including all those state mandated fees
Speaker 3: that are now running through people's electricity bills and making
Speaker 3: the state.
Speaker 1: Too expensive to live in.
Speaker 3: We've got five hundred people a week leaving Massachusetts. We've
Speaker 3: got businesses and students leaving Massachusetts. We got to turn
Speaker 3: all that around, and it starts with cutting taxes, cutting fees,
Speaker 3: and then getting our state spending under control.
Speaker 4: So we think about one of the big items in
Speaker 4: the news here has been in your town of Boston.
Speaker 4: Harvard getting a lot of challenges from the Trump administration
Speaker 4: as it relates to funding of some of the research
Speaker 4: they do at Harvard. What's your view on that.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I go back a long way at Harvard.
Speaker 3: I went to Harvard as an undergrad and I went
Speaker 3: on an ROTC scholarship. So when I was at Harvard
Speaker 3: in the mid nineties, the faculty was trying to run
Speaker 3: that campus, run that program, that ROTZI program off campus,
Speaker 3: and terminate relations with it. So that was one of
Speaker 3: my early political fights in life, was the fight to
Speaker 3: protect ROTC at Harvard. So as we look at Harvard,
Speaker 3: you know, you look at Harvard today you know, Harvard's
Speaker 3: a critical part of our local economy, as is BU
Speaker 3: and MIT. What I would tell you is, I think
Speaker 3: we need a governor that can have a seat at
Speaker 3: the table and can sit down with this administration and
Speaker 3: get to a good outcome for Harvard and MIT and
Speaker 3: be you here, and I'll tell you what's not helpful.
Speaker 3: What's not helpful As a governor who is grand standing,
Speaker 3: who's going on CNN and the New York Times and
Speaker 3: poking the president in the eye. I don't think that's
Speaker 3: good for Harvard. I don't think that's good for Massachusetts.
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Speaker 2: Joining us Short Sleeve of the MBTA, Brian short Sleeve.
Speaker 2: He's the latest candidate for governor, a Republican from the
Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. What are the skill sets that the
Speaker 2: MBTA you have? It will make Democrats and independence vote
Speaker 2: for you that the present governor doesn't have. What's the
Speaker 2: process skills step you learned trying to keep the traffic
Speaker 2: straight at ken Moore Square.
Speaker 1: Well, I stepped into the NBTA.
Speaker 3: It was after the snow Mageddon of twenty fifteen, there
Speaker 3: were one hundred inches of snow on the ground and
Speaker 3: that system had failed. Governor Baker asked me to take
Speaker 3: a couple of years of my life away from the
Speaker 3: business world and step in.
Speaker 1: It gave me a mission.
Speaker 3: His mission was balance the budget, get the capital spending moving,
Speaker 3: and rescue the Green Line Extension project.
Speaker 1: So I think what I.
Speaker 3: Demonstrated in those two years was the toughness of a marine.
Speaker 1: I'm a fighter.
Speaker 3: I know how hard it is to drive change in
Speaker 3: big public agencies like the TEA, and.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of our record there.
Speaker 3: We developed, We delivered the first balanced budget the TEA
Speaker 3: in more than a decade. We delivered record low operating
Speaker 3: expenses in that green Line Extension project, which today Tom
Speaker 3: will take you from downtown crossing right out to Tufts University.
Speaker 3: It's a great project that was dead in the water
Speaker 3: back in twenty fifteen. The FEDS had funding, it was
Speaker 3: a billion dollars overdue, and we got it done and
Speaker 3: turned around.
Speaker 2: I cut to the Chase Bill Well, didn't have to
Speaker 2: deal with woke Boston. You have to deal with woke Boston.
Speaker 2: You know, the people's republic in Nantucket. You know the
Speaker 2: drill better than I do. Brian short sleeve. How are
Speaker 2: you going to get woke Massachusetts to vote for a
Speaker 2: Republican this time around?
Speaker 3: Well, Massachusetts does better with balance, and I'll tell you
Speaker 3: historically having a Republican governor in the corner office has
Speaker 3: been a good thing for the state.
Speaker 1: I'm traveling everywhere, I'm talking to voters.
Speaker 3: I'm getting a great response from donors, and what they're
Speaker 3: telling me is, we got to cut taxes. We got
Speaker 3: to cut spending, we got to cut fees, we got
Speaker 3: to get the fiscal house in order here because it's
Speaker 3: become too expensive to do business in Massachusetts and that's
Speaker 3: what's driving people and businesses out of the state.
Speaker 1: So I think people want change. We want to go
Speaker 1: back to being a growth state.
Speaker 3: We don't want to be tied with Illinois for the
Speaker 3: lowest private sector job growth in the country, and unfortunately
Speaker 3: that's where we sit today.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. We just head you on for one question.
Speaker 2: Should Devers play first?
Speaker 1: I would say yes, but that's a very controversial question.
Speaker 2: That's why we're asking. We're trying to make news here, Brian,
Speaker 2: I say yes, there we go.
Speaker 3: They're pain enough.
Speaker 2: He's killing it. What comeback?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Brice short sleeve, thank you so much, of course,
Speaker 2: with the MBTA forever in Boston and now candidate Republican
Speaker 2: candidate for governor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.