According to reports, Governor Fortuño's personal security detail has been significantly beefed up since an incident on Tuesday when a protester threw an egg at him. The governor was holding a press conference in Fajardo to tout his new project for the improvement of the boats that carry passengers to the islands of Vieques and Culebrain. As the governor announced that the boats would be repaired in Fajardo, praising it as initiative to create jobs, one of the workers affected by the Gov.'s mass layoffs hurled an egg at the Governor's head, shouting "Hypocrite, how dare you talk about jobs when you're getting rid of them!"

Watch the egg-throwing incident unfold here:

After narrowly missing being hit by the egg, the Governor abruptly ended the press conference and left the area in a angry huff...but not before uttering this truly remarkable quote:

"I have nothing to say, because you, the press, decided to abandon me," he complained.

Nothing to say, really?! Has the Governor nothing to say to the families of the thousands of workers he's laying off? Or the hundreds of thousands of school children who will suffer when the Puerto Rican Department of Education loses federal funding?

How about all the patients who will have to wait in longer lines, and receive poorer services because of the cuts to the Health Department? Or all the seniors, battered women and neglected patients who will have no choice but to rely on crippled agencies decimated by ridiculous layoffs--especially as some of those jobs are paid with FEDERAL funds. And let's not talk about the abused kids and families struggling to get off welfare who will receive poorer services from an overstretched family department.

Unlike Governor Fortuño, we have plenty to say. And so did the dozens of protesters who arrived in the area, chanting "the people demand justice!" and "Fortuño is a coward!"

Today, news broke that the Governor's office bought all the remaining unsold seats (350) for a gala opening tonight featuring the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra at the new Performing Arts Center in Santurce. Reason: the Governor will be attending the event with his family and some members of Cabinet--and they don't want egg-throwers around.

"It is an audacity that the Government incurs expenses in times like this, where moderation should prevail in the costs to the treasury...and thousands of civil servants are living moments of despair and distress, having lost their jobs, wondering how they will bring bread to their children after November," said UGT president Juan Eliza Colon. At the very least, it doesn't look like the Governor is going to be shaking the public's new-found association of him + eggs anytime soon.