Baker’s role in Big Dig financing process was anything but ‘small’

"The administration kept denying the obvious,'' Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed watchdog group, said in a recent interview. "If you keep spending more on the Central Artery, you're going to have less to spend on state highways. I learned that in second grade. If you've got a dollar, you can only spend it once.''