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Deval Patrick
Democratic Candidate for Governor, Massachusetts

Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts
1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee

Ed Augustus
State Senator

Music by Circle in a Square, Christine Smith and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

Deval Patrick
Candidate for Governor
Website

Deval Patrick was born into a poor family in Chicago’s South Side. He grew up in a one-bedroom apartment and he often tells the story of how he had to rotate from bed to bed, spending every third night sleeping on the floor. While in middle school, one of his teachers referred him to A Better Chance, a national non-profit organization for identifying, recruiting and developing leaders among academically gifted students of color, which enabled him to attend Milton Academy in Massachusetts.

Deval attended Harvard College in 1978. After Harvard, he worked with the United Nations in Africa. In 1979, Deval returned to the United States and enrolled at Harvard Law School.

In 1994, Clinton nominated Deval to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. From 1999 to 2004, Deval Patrick worked as an executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of the Coca-Cola Company. He has been credited with building a strong grassroots campaign that helped him handedly win a crowded primary in early September.

Michael Dukakis
Former Governor of Massachusetts
1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee
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Michael Dukakis served as a three term Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was the Democratic Nominee for President in 1988. Dukakis lost the election 46% to George H.W. Bush’s 51% but has remained a leader on a number of issues including transportation, serving on the board of AMTRAK.

Dukakis has spent much of the past 15 years teaching at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He is dedicated to inspiring young Americans to enter public service and travels the country speaking to younger Americans about their future careers in the public sector.

Dukakis lives in Brookline, MA with his wife Kitty Dukakis.

Ed Augustus
Massachusetts State Senator
Website

Ed Augustus was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 2004. For six years prior to his election to the Senate, Augustus served as Chief of Staff to Third District Congressman James P. McGovern. At 24 years of age in 1989, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Worcester School Committee, on which he served two terms. He also served one term on the Worcester Human Rights Commission. Ed Augustus also served a high-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration.

MUSIC:

Circle in a Square
“I Ain’t Sorry”

Christine Smith
“Evil”