Hard on the heels of Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi’s undressing of local macher and new BRA chief Peter Meade comes Boston Herald columnist Christine McConville’s dismantling of Michael Widmer (Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation) and Paul Grogan (Boston Foundation):

Crusaders mum on own plans

AFL-CIO boss Robert “Bobby” Haynes is furious.

Why, he asks, are Paul Grogan and Michael Widmer — the well-paid nonprofit titans who seem to have opinions about everyone else’s medical insurance — so quiet about their own health plans?

Days after Widmer’s Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation and Grogan’s Boston Foundation released a report about the crushing costs of municipal unions’ health insurance, the two men were mum about their own plans.

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Recently, Grogan and Widmer launched a spirited jihad against municipal health plans of cops, firefighters and teachers because they’re more costly than the state’s plan and put too much strain on property taxpayers.

That’s what’s got Haynes’ blood up.

“This is an all-out public relations assault on the working class by big, shadowy, selfish business interests, and it’s being waged by their shameless mouthpieces like Widmer and Grogan, who masquerade as some kind of defenders of the public interest,” he said.

McConville also points out that Haynes received $70,000 per annum as a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield board of directors in addition to his $130,000 annual salary from the AFL-CIO.

But that pales in comparison with Widmer’s yearly take of $385,946, not to mention Grogan’s $544,288.

So . . .

Given Vennochi’s and McConville’s pieces, is this a come-to-Jesus moment for Boston’s movers and shakers?

We can only hope so.