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	Governor Deval Patrick - Office of the Governor
		Patrick came to the Commonwealth at the age of 14. An excellent student despite the difficult circumstances of under-funded and often violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization.
		Following law school, Patrick served as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge before joining the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 1986, he joined the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow and was named partner in 1990, at the age of 34.
		The Commonwealth’s first African-American Governor, Deval Patrick came into office with a grassroots message of hope, community and hard work. By focusing on transparency and inclusion, he hopes to increase accessibility to government and encourage the civic engagement so crucial to shared progress in education, health care, economic development and other issues.
	www.mass.gov /?pageID=gov3utilities&sid=Agov3&U=Agov3_Deval_Patrick_welcome_msg (587 words)

	Deval Patrick Addresses UMass Dems Policy Conference
		Deval Patrick hammered home the main theme of his campaign, that his candidacy is meant to be a counter-offensive against the pervasive disengagement of people and their government.
		Deval Patrick stated he was looking into ways to facilitate residential energy conservation devices like solar heaters, putting them within reach of regular people by dealing with the front end cost of investment.
		Patrick also said that he doesn't have a magic bullet for the issue of affordable housing, but that one trend he noticed was the low rate of multi-familty house starts in Massachusetts.
	www.massdems.org /towns/umassamherst/conference/Deval.html (1854 words)

	Deval Patrick Watch: Soft On Crime Archives
		Because Deval Patrick is on the wrong side of the issues and rather than call attention to his position on illegal immigration or his weak record on crime, he's trying to keep Kerry Healey's negatives high by demonizing her as just another negative campaigner.
		Accused Rapist To Stump For Deval Patrick In Worcester
		Deval Patrick, as we know, has vigorously advocated for the release of a convicted rapist, and Tim Murray, has represented sex offenders in front of the Sex Offender Registry Board, and has an active case that is currently pending.
	www.devalpatrickwatch.com /archives/soft_on_crime/index.php (4356 words)

	Deval Patrick, Democrat for Governor of Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deval left LDF in 1986 to join the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow, where he became a partner in 1990.
		Deval worked on a wide range of issues at the Justice Department including the investigation of church burnings throughout the South in the mid-1990s, prosecution of hate crimes and abortion clinic violence, cases of employment discrimination, and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
		Deval has served on several charitable and corporate boards, as well as the Federal Election Reform Commission under Presidents Carter and Ford, and as Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council by appointment of Governor Weld.
	www.devalpatrick.com /bio.cfm (1042 words)

	Democratic Governors Association: Deval Patrick: Biography
		Deval worked on a wide range of issues at the Justice Department including the investigation of church burnings throughout the South in the mid-1990s, prosecution of hate crimes and abortion clinic violence, cases of employment discrimination, and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
		Deval Patrick sees Massachusetts as a place in which businesses invest because of a well-educated and well-prepared workforce and because they are assured that neither taxes nor regulation will be unreasonable.
		Deval Patrick wants health care for every man, woman, and child in Massachusetts that is affordable, portable, safe, patient-centered, and as effective as modern science can make it.
	democraticgovernors.org /content/759/deval-patrick-biography (1247 words)

	Deval Patrick- Candidate for Governor- Deval Patrick - Boston.com
		Deval L. Patrick is banking on his mix of public- and private-sector experience and his compelling rags-to-riches tale to catapult him to the Democratic nomination on Sept. 19.
		Diane Patrick, a high-powered lawyer, is using her voice to champion the candidacy of her husband, Deval, for governor.
		Deval Patrick discussed his move from the South Side of Chicago to Milton Academy and his multi-million-dollar vacation home in the Berkshires.
	www.boston.com /news/local/politics/candidates/governor/patrick (341 words)

	Deval Patrick Watch
		Deval Patrick, who early in the primary season spurned his former mentor Bill Clinton and endorsed Obama for the Democrat nomination, is seeking to raise his national profile on Obama's coattails in hopes of a prime position in his administration, say Massachusetts Democrat advisers.
		Patrick's bill, under consideration by the House Judiciary Committee, reduces from 10 years to five the time that must pass before a misdemeanor is sealed in a person's record, and reduces the waiting period from 15 years to 10 for felonies.
		Governor Deval Patrick's quest to tighten corporate tax laws and reap hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue might be undermined by a last-minute amendment providing new offshore tax breaks that was tacked onto the legislation by the House, according to state officials.
	www.devalpatrickwatch.com (5641 words)

	MyDD :: Deval Patrick Creeping Closer in MA Governor Primary
		Ultimately though it's people like Deval Patrick that are the key players here, because they will have the greatest impact on voters' lives and they will show that progressive governance delivers good things to the American people.
		Deval Patrick is highly intelligent, charismatic and has recruited a diverse mix of characters for his campaign from white male college students to white haired female community activists to fl muslim preachers to committed athiests like myself.
		Deval Patrick is going to be the next governor of Massachusetts, and will be seen by the mainstream press as the next Barack Obama.
	www.mydd.com /story/2006/2/7/181651/9634 (2292 words)

	Hub Politics: Deval Patrick Against The Law
		Deval Patrick, an attorney by trade, is accusing the Supreme Judicial Court, Attorney General Tom "Cover Up" Reilly and Governor Mitt Romney for "using an obscure law for political gain." This is just laughable.
		Deval did not say that law was not the law, but that Tom Reilly "chose to enforce an obscure law".
		Deval is right, you are wrong and you shouldn't try to debate issues concerning the law unless you really and truly understand how our system works.
	www.hubpolitics.com /archives/000386.php (913 words)

	Left In Lowell » Blog Archive » Full Interview with Deval Patrick
		PATRICK: Well, you know, the fact that people have failed before me is a factor but it can’t be that we’re at this position today in politics where if it hasn’t been achieved before, it can’t be achieved in the future.
		PATRICK: And I think, Lynne, we ought to be willing to go and talk with Toyota about all of the factors in their decision, just because there’s a lot of learning that can come from that.
		Deval Patrick has touched on many important issues in this interview, but one that I am particularly glad he mentioned is building commuter rail to the Fall River/New Bedford area.
	www.leftinlowell.com /2005/07/27/full-interview-with-deval-patrick (3337 words)

	Deval Patrick backs Barack Obama at Boston Common rally - The Boston Globe
		The event was the culmination of a long courtship of Patrick's endorsement by both Obama, a close friend and kindred political spirit, and Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, whom Patrick knew even before he worked for her husband's administration.
		Patrick said that his specific role in Obama's campaign had not been defined, but that he would campaign as aggressively as he could.
		Patrick insisted that backing Obama was not a choice against Clinton, whose husband tapped him in the 1990s to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2007/10/24/for_obama_support_from_a_kindred_political_spirit (725 words)

	For governor: Deval Patrick - The Phoenix (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Patrick beat the so-called wise guys, the insiders, at their own game: first by dominating the statewide caucuses and then by winning the state convention.
		As impressive as the technical virtuosity of the Patrick campaign is, it is by inspiring people from different walks of life and from disparate corners of the state to re-engage in public life that the campaign is accomplishing its goals and hitting its targets.
		Deval Patrick may be a guy from the Chicago housing projects who made good on scholarships at Milton Academy, Harvard, and Harvard Law.
	www.thephoenix.com /PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=22550 (1255 words)

	Deval Patrick « Dispatches from Seth Gitell
		Patrick could have done the most to demonstrate that he is indeed a new man of the left.
		Patrick instead appears to be laying the groundwork to dismantle these reforms.
		Patrick asked a crowd estimated at 10,000 in Boston late last night.“It got as nasty and mean as a campaign could be, but the voters of South Carolina rejected negativity and so will we,” he said in the moments before Mr.
	gitell.wordpress.com /category/deval-patrick (2071 words)

	Blue Mass. Group :: Guerrilla Vlogger: Meet Deval Patrick
		Deval comes on and gives his gracious thanks to the event organizers for the evening, one of them you'll meet in the interviews.
		Patrick announced his candidacy 12 months ago with less than 300K and has since raised $4 million, 550K in the last month alone, a state record for fundraising in one month by any candidate in history.
		As a little aside, the picture of Deval in front of the State House is at the kick-off rally for the Common Cause Massachusetts campaign for fair districts.
	bluemassgroup.com /showDiary.do?diaryId=3452 (3206 words)

	Latest Deval Patrick News - Examiner.com
		Deval Patrick heads to California for an international biotechnology conference toting a new $1 billion life sciences bill he signed into law Monday.
		Deval Patrick is heading to California for an international biotechnology conference toting a new $1 billion life sciences law.
		Deval Patrick joined his family to march in Boston's annual gay pride parade Saturday, days after a newspaper article was published in which his youngest daughter revealed she's gay.
	www.examiner.com /Subject-Deval_Patrick.html (406 words)

	Bright Star of Mass. Tarnished by Lapses - washingtonpost.com
		Deval Patrick, with wife Diane during the campaign, has said he will cut back on work at night and on weekends because his wife is suffering from depression.
		When Patrick, 50, entered office, he decided to lease a 2007 Cadillac DTS as his official state car, replacing the Ford Crown Victoria his predecessor used; it cost the state an additional $543 each month, but he explained to reporters that the old car had a lot of miles on it and a broken heater.
		Patrick's office announced more than a week ago that the governor's wife, Diane, was suffering from depression and exhaustion, and Patrick says he will cut down the number of nights and weekends that he works.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701005.html (1374 words)

	Deval Patrick makes history as Massachusetts governor - USATODAY.com
		Deval Patrick's victory in the Massachusetts governor's race is one for the history books.
		Patrick apologized for failing to disclose that he had helped pay for a DNA test for a convicted rapist, who had said it would clear him.
		Patrick, a death penalty opponent, said that he did legitimate legal work and that Republicans were trying to distract the electorate with negative campaigning.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/vote2006/MA/2006-11-07-deval-patrick-governor_x.htm (472 words)

	Vineyard Backs Deval Patrick - 9/22/06 - Vineyard Gazette Online
		Patrick was the first gubernatorial candidate of any party to support the offshore renewable energy project.
		Patrick during his primary victory speech in Boston on Tuesday night took a swipe at the current administration's opposition to Cape Wind.
		Patrick's position on the wind farm might hurt his standing in the Cape region, where public opinion on the project is more divided than it is statewide.
	www.mvgazette.com /news/2006/09/22/deval_patrick_primary.php (1138 words)

	Deval L. Patrick News - The New York Times
		Deval Laurdine Patrick made the trip from the streets of Chicago to the office of the Governor of Massachusetts, but once there the ride, if anything, has become bumpier.
		Patrick, a Democrat who in 2006 became the first fl governor to win the office, has met strong resistance from a House of Representatives controlled by his own party.
		Patrick’s difficulties, suggesting, along with other critics, that the two are alike in their lack of executive experience.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/p/deval_l_patrick/index.html?inline=nyt-per (760 words)

	wbztv.com - At Home With Deval Patrick
		But these days Deval Patrick is gladly giving up all those pleasures for the grind of the governor's race.
		Patrick is leading in the polls, but says he takes nothing for granted.
		The Patrick's say after the chaos of the campaign, they look forward to reinstating their traditional Sunday suppers with the whole family.
	wbztv.com /local/Deval.Patrick.At.2.582581.html (589 words)

	The Phoenix > The Editorial Page > For governor: Deval Patrick
		Patrick beat the so-called wise guys, the insiders, at their own game: first by dominating the statewide caucuses and then by winning the state convention.
		As impressive as the technical virtuosity of the Patrick campaign is, it is by inspiring people from different walks of life and from disparate corners of the state to re-engage in public life that the campaign is accomplishing its goals and hitting its targets.
		Deval Patrick may be a guy from the Chicago housing projects who made good on scholarships at Milton Academy, Harvard, and Harvard Law.
	thephoenix.com /Article.aspx?id=22550&page=1 (1163 words)

	Boston Daily Blog - Boston Magazine
		Deval Patrick’s casino proposal, there’s been a fair amount of after-the-fact regret going around.
		As cities and towns prepare to deal with the lean 2009 state budget, Patrick raised his office budget by 80 percent.
		Now that the Speaker is looking especially vulnerable, Gov. Patrick is floating the idea of bringing his casino plan back to life.
	www.bostonmagazine.com /blogs/boston/category/deval-patrick (923 words)

	Deval Patrick Elected Governor - Boston News Story - WCVB Boston
		Patrick said that he looks forward to working with Romney for a "smooth transition" into the corner office.
		Patrick said that one of his top priorities if he were elected governor would be to cut property taxes by reinvesting in local cities and towns.
		Patrick vowed to reduce class size and boost funding for state colleges and universities.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /news/10267647/detail.html (1253 words)

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