List-Makers Hedging Onorato Bet With Turnpike Appointment As Rendell Approaches His Exit

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, as oily a character as one will encounter this side of Popeye the Sailor's girlfriend, is hedging List-Makers' bets (against the likely prospect that Dan Onorato will not be assigning contracts from the governor's office) by proposing that William Lieberman become an engineer on the gravy train serve as a Pennsylvania Turnpike capo commissioner.