In a speech from the State House steps, Barrett directed some of his comments at the rally directly to Massport’s board of directors.
“Now [Massport’s] board of directors is the big decider here, so today we direct them a plea — it’s not too late to do the right thing. If you don’t, you put Massport at risk of becoming a pariah. A poster child for reckless disregard of the public interest by a governmental body,” Barrett, who lives in Lexington near the airfield, said. “If 27 — or 18 — or just a dozen — of these hangars get built, the agency will never come back from the reputational damage. Going ahead would be an unforced error, one of the greatest ones in modern Massachusetts public policy.”
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