He knew contractors had left ladders outside.
He said contractors like Bovis, Skanska and Balfour Beatty are "replicating" their experience here to win contracts elsewhere.
Beyond the leadership void, he said, contractors behave differently on publicly financed projects than private jobs.
During tours, though, he saw contractors from rural parts of the state nodding in approval at practical, well-engineered features that appealed to their problem-solving sensibility.
He enlisted contractors to pitch projects that would keep the dollars flowing and paid lobbyists to ease them through.
On the latter, he feels contractors should swim with the tide through 2008.
And even some 'angry white male employees' won't like how he stiffs contractors and workers".
He asked a contractor if he could buy trunks stashed in a hotel basement, and one turned out to contain three letters by Orville Wright.
He brought in a contractor he had worked with before, and the two shared the house for two weeks, tearing out most of the kitchen.
He said the contractors discarded trash from lunch in their Dumpsters, which he said they covered with tarpaulins.
He routinely stiffed contractors and workers.
