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"People really got engaged and did what [Deval Patrick] asked them to do and that was to care enough about their state to participate," said Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral. "In return, Patrick promised them that their vote would be meaningful and they trusted him."
"I think it's important," she said, "especially for Democrats, to be seen as corporate-friendly. He's not really about party politics; it's more right and wrong, rather than left and right. I also like Deval's emphasis on growing our economy and creating jobs on all economic levels.""These local chiefs know who the responsible gun owners are in their cities and towns, and they know the bad characters who shouldn't get a gun permit," Patrick said at the time. "Local control of gun permits isn't broken and a Beacon Hill bureaucracy certainly won't fix it."See the full content of this document
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Governor Deval Patrick
In one of the most lopsided gubernatorial elections in recent history, Deval Patrick easily defeated Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, ending a 16-year Republican reign on the state's corner office and sending a message across the nation that the politics of fear and negativity don't work in Massachusetts.
His landslide victory makes him only the second African American to become governor in the United States and the second Af...See the full content of this document
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