Like Deval Patrick, I was born in Illinois. Now I live in CT (working on Ned Lamont's campaign) but I work in Marlborough, MA. I've checked in on Deval Patrick's campaign and find him inspiring. I wish I could clone him and bring his clone to CT to run for governor.
To my fellow Lamont Nutmeggers Ned Lamont's campaign isn't the only New England Democratic revolution going on. Patrick has been working his campaign a lot longer than Ned, but it shows that even Massachusetts Democrats want change within their party.
Congrats to Deval Patrick and may the Lamont campaign and the campaigns of CT's Democratic gubernatorial candidates find you a source of inspiration too.
http://www.boston.com/...
WORCESTER --Deval Patrick, a political novice whose campaign for governor has stirred the grass roots of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, won a strong endorsement at the state convention yesterday, outpacing two well-established and well-funded political figures.
The results set the stage for what is expected to be a very competitive, expensive, and difficult-to-predict contest for the Democratic nomination.
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Patrick, denouncing what he said is the party's ``politics as usual" culture and ``backroom" dealings, received the backing of 58 percent of the 4,400 delegates.
``I came from nearly nothing to a decisive victory in the convention, so I'm thrilled," he said after accepting the endorsement. ``There's something fundamentally threatening about being an outsider candidate . . . but that's not going to deter me, because that's what I believe we need right now in Massachusetts."
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