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I’m a life-long Massachusetts resident and registered undeclared voter, meaning I choose to vote for the candidate, not the party.

I very rarely talk politics in my social media circles, but I can’t help it watching the Massachusetts Governor’s Debate now. It’s a shame Tim Cahill hasn’t managed his campaign better. He has some solid experience and great ideas, particularly in thinking with a small business mentality, but he can’t win. A vote for him now is simply helping Charlie Baker win and I can’t support that. If there was any question of Baker’s honesty and viability as a future Governor, the memo released by the AP today sealed it. He simply can’t be trusted. There’s no ideal candidate for me here, but Deval Patrick gets my vote. He hasn’t been as strong as I would’ve liked since elected, but I also wish he had been better at promoting the successes he HAS had, because there have been a number of them…in starting to enable affordable healthcare, in supporting our schools, in fostering our state’s innovation and technology, in managing a budget with tough decisions, and even in creating new avenues to jobs. There is MUCH more work to be done to improve the state of our Commonwealth, and I personally am choosing to have Patrick get back to it.