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Pioneer Institute is funded by conservatives named David Koch and the Walton Foundation.

Charlie Baker was Pioneer Institute's first co-director.

As state finance director, Baker proposed the plan to put big dig debt on MBTA books.

Charles Chieppo is a fellow of the Pioneer Institute and a frequent spokesmen for Pioneer's position in the media.

Pioneer Institute has been a major force in the MBTA debate for as long as they've been around.

Pioneer Institute remains active in the debate. Their tactics include focusing the debate on everything from employee time off policies (in many cases misleading so) to opposing plans to expand service to Foxborough, Fall River, Springfield or Sommerville, The David and Charles Koch political organization AFP has killed transit projects all over the country.

Baker, Koch, Waltons, Chieppo are all coming from the same place ideologically and on specific policy.

Baker is an incrementalist.

In 1992, there were no charter schools in Mass. Baker played a key role in the getting the law passed and that's how school privatization was born.

In 2010, the charter cap was doubled from 9% to 18% of district budget and Pioneer Institute called for Lawrence to become 100% charter schools, like New Orleans. New Orleans schools has been rated D and F by state of Louisiana.

Baker's Charter school bill raises the cap from 18% of district budget to 100% on 25% of Massachusetts school districts, the districts with the greatest density of kids growing up in poverty and English language learners.

Charter schools don't serve all the students they take but they do defund the districts schools the kids dome from. For example, one class at Boston Collegiate started out with 120 students and graduated 20. 5/6ths of the kids they took were "cohort loss." I consider that failure. The remaining 20 scored well on MCAS, well enough to brag about.

Baker is advocating for privatizing a dozen MBTA routes.

The pro-Baker super pac funded by the RGA spent $12 million on Baker's campaign. It's top funder was the Koch brothers.

The Big Dig Central artery/Tunnel Project cost $24.3 billion (with interest) making it the most expensive highway project in U.S. history.

The project was originally scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $2.8 billion (in 1982 dollars, US $6.0 billion adjusted for inflation as of 2006).

The project was completed in December 2007, at a cost of over $14.6 billion ($8.08 billion in 1982 dollars, meaning a cost overrun of about 190%) as of 2006.

The Boston Globe estimated that the project will not be paid off until 2038.

Three projects were ordered to mitigate environmental impact of the big dig.

(1) Phase II Silver Line tunnel under Fort Point Channel. Silver Line buses now use this tunnel and the Ted Williams Tunnel to link South Station and Logan Airport.

(2) Expanding the Green Line beyond Lechmere GLX, and

(3) connecting the Red and Blue subway lines, and

(4) restoring the Green Line streetcar service to the Arborway in Jamaica Plain. Arborway restoration has been abandoned, following a court decision in 2011.

The state legislature's forward funding plan was an abject failure as it was inadequate revenue.