Five of the final seven governors of Democrat controlled Massachusetts the Republicans.
Republican Mike Kennealy will make it six.
Mike Who?
Mike Kennealy in Lexington, so. Kenneale is a 57-year-old former business business found public service to be the second call.
The second call brought him to leave the world with equity equity to serve in different public service efforts, starting as special turrence advisor to the public school system.
In 2015, he joined the GOP Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration as assistant secretary for business growth and later as secretary at home and development.
He is not yet recently served senior advisor and principalic officers of boys and female Boston clubs.
Now the governor will be $ 2 million in his own money to get his campaign around.
He admits that he has a “balanced experience” to be an effective governor “can do the job.”
“I believe in myself. I believe in people. I believe I will be the governor,” Kenneal said to coffee.
He has made it, he will follow the modern steps in a series of Republican governors selected or served in a more democratic state and progressive state. They are the Bill Weld, 1991-1997; The last Paul Cellucci, 1997-2001; Acting Gov. Jane Swift, 2001-2003; Mitt Romney 2003-2007, and Charlie Baker, 2015- 2023.
Republican Geoff Diehl is the sixth, but he was charged with Democrat Maura Healey in the last election. Healey is running for reelection.
But the fact that a Republican can win the governor of a more democratic state gives hope to Kenneale and the Republican Brian ShortsleeeveAn official MBTA officer under the baker, also running for the Governor.
“The state of the Republican governors are good,” Kennea said, even in a legislature full of democrats. “It works better with my wide experience,” he added.
“At the end of the day, everyone wants people is the average leadership,” he said.
But it was not in the state of the house these days, according to Kennea, and he took Healey on various issues.
From his administration – or disadvantage – the expensive illegal immigration invasion of compulsion to communities to build at home under the MBTA Community Act.
He also forced Healey for joining the Rioters of Los Angeles by criticizing President Trump’s decision to send to the National Guard in California. “It is not about politics, it is about public safety,” he said, adding that Healey had “excess” to “over his time as governor.
While he worked for Baker, when Baker signed the MBTA Communities Act that Mandates MBTA Adjacent Communities Build Affordable Housing, Kennealy did not support it, but proposed more voluntary housing collaboration between the state and the communities.
He said that one of his first acts as a governor was to change the work. He also wants to change the wrong called “the right of the law of the shelter” which serves as a magnet for illegal immigrants from around the world.
Signed by Gov. Michel Dukakis in 1983, the law was originally designed to provide homeless home to residents of Massachusetts, not in illegal immigrants.
However, Healey and other progressive democrats parsed and separated the law by calling illegal immigrants “residents.”
While Kenneal was not voted by President Trump in the last election, he, unlike Healey, said he would work with Trump and stopped the bad opening of the border policy.
Healey, instead of attacking Trump, “should thank him for making sure the limit,” he said.
Early 2026 campaigns for governor and kenneeale this point is unknown.
She is the new child on the block. But beware. He’s around.
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