Congratulations to Governor-Elect Deval Patrick!
He is an interesting person, a charismatic speaker, a brilliant negotiator, and a sharp businessman.
This is his first public sector role. It will be interesting to see what kind of governor he will become.
BOSTON — Deval Patrick was elected governor of Massachusetts on Tuesday, restoring the Democratic Party to the Corner Office after a 16-year absence, and putting himself into the history books as the first black to win the state's highest office in its 218-year history.
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In addition to the state distinction, the victory made Patrick just the second African-American governor in the nation since Reconstruction. The first, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, left office more than a decade ago, in 1995.
"I believe in a grass-roots strategy to campaign. I believe in a grass-roots strategy to govern," Patrick, 50, said earlier in the day, in a preview of remarks he planned to deliver to thousands at an election-night party at the Hynes Convention Center.
"Our biggest challenge is how we transfer that energy and that excitement and willingness of people to connect and check back in into day-to-day governing and into a revived civic life," he said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227999,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2006
He is an interesting person, a charismatic speaker, a brilliant negotiator, and a sharp businessman.
This is his first public sector role. It will be interesting to see what kind of governor he will become.
BOSTON — Deval Patrick was elected governor of Massachusetts on Tuesday, restoring the Democratic Party to the Corner Office after a 16-year absence, and putting himself into the history books as the first black to win the state's highest office in its 218-year history.
(snip)
In addition to the state distinction, the victory made Patrick just the second African-American governor in the nation since Reconstruction. The first, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, left office more than a decade ago, in 1995.
"I believe in a grass-roots strategy to campaign. I believe in a grass-roots strategy to govern," Patrick, 50, said earlier in the day, in a preview of remarks he planned to deliver to thousands at an election-night party at the Hynes Convention Center.
"Our biggest challenge is how we transfer that energy and that excitement and willingness of people to connect and check back in into day-to-day governing and into a revived civic life," he said.
(Full Story on link below)
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227999,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2006
