Deval Patrick

assistant attorney general

Personal Information

Born on July 31, 1956, in Chicago, IL; son of Laurdine Kenneth "Pat" (a jazz musician) and Emily Mae (Wintersmith) Patrick; married Diane Bemus, 1984; children: Sarah and Katherine.
Education: Attended Milton Academy preparatory school; Havard College, A.B. (cum laude), 1978; Harvard Law School, J.D. (with honors), 1982.
Memberships: California bar, 1983; District of Columbia bar, 1985; Massachusetts bar, 1987. Director, member of the executive committee, and chairman of the New England steering committe of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., 1991-93; Trustee and executive committee member for the Milton Academy preparatory school, 1985~; overseer for public television station WGBH Boston, 1993-94; corporator for Milton Hospital, 1991-94; American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association; Boston Bar Association (counsel member, 1993); Harvard Club of Boston; Harvard Alumni Association (director, 1993).

Career

Law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt, US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1982-83. Assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1983-86. Partner at Hill and Barlow law firm, 1986-94. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994~.

Life's Work

Deval Patrick is the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights. He is an eloquent and impassioned champion of affirmative action and an outspoken advocate for the nation's minority and disabled citizens. His zealous enforcement of civil rights laws stems from his conviction, voiced in a Los Angeles Town Hall speech, that "legions of racial and ethnic minorities feel less of a sense of opportunity, less assured of our equality, and less confident of fair treatment today than we have in many, many years."

Deval Laurdine Patrick was born on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1956. When he was four years old his father abandoned the family to pursue a musical career, leaving Deval, his mother, and sister impoverished. The family, which spent several months on welfare, was at one point so destitute that they could afford only two beds for their basement apartment, a problem that required one of them sleep on the floor every third night.

As a child, Patrick went to the Mary C. Terrell elementary school, a building that bordered the Robert Taylor Homes, a large and notoriously dangerous housing project. So great was the threat of violence that students had to slide a pass under the school door to get inside. Young Deval worried that the rest of his academic career would be equally bleak. The Woodlawn riots, which tore Chicago apart in 1968 did little to ease his fears.

Poverty and grim surroundings notwithstanding, Deval was an outstanding student. One of his teachers recalled that even in the sixth grade his studiousness and leadership were obvious. Apparently, so was his ability to persuade an audience; when a school essay contest invited entries on "Why My Father Should Be Father of the Year," Deval won the competition with a paper entitled "Why My Grandmother Should be Father of the Year."

By eighth grade he was first in his class. A teacher encouraged him to apply to A Better Chance, a scholarship program that sent children of limited means to college preparatory schools. He applied to Milton Academy and was accepted. As he recalled for the Boston Globe, "I just got a letter one day from Milton . . . [that] said you are admitted to Class 4. I wasn't sure it wasn't a military academy until I got there. The whole letter was in a language I didn't quite understand."

This language barrier became even more apparent several months later, when Deval arrived for the first day of school. In a story he has repeated often, Patrick says that the list of required clothing sent by the school called for a jacket, and his proud family splurged on one. Only as his classmates were dressing for dinner that evening did Deval realize his error--the school wanted its students in blazers, not the windbreaker he was wearing.

The Milton Academy campus was far removed from the harsh reality of urban life, and Deval was awed by its beauty and tranquillity. He was also terrified by the enormous changes he experienced. His fear gradually subsided, however, as he began to enjoy life there. He finally had a room of his own and could learn without the omnipresent menace of danger he had endured in Chicago. He had a paper route to earn money. And he had his family's unwavering love and support--even if they were hundreds of miles away.

As Deval settled into his new academic life his natural ability once again began to emerge. He recited Kipling's poem "If" during an assembly, giving a performance so stirring that it moved his Latin teacher, Francis Millet, ("a very dry and formal sort of person with this incredible heart and soul," Patrick later recalled in the Boston Globe) to tears. "That's the kind of thing that makes a kid like me--or a kid from Nepal--believe that things are going to work out."

"Milton Academy was kind of watershed for him," said Judge Reginald Lindsay, a former colleague who is now a federal district judge in Boston, in a New York Times article. Patrick himself said in a speech later reprinted in the Chicago Tribune that during his time at Milton "I learned to appreciate education as more than accumulated information and prestige, but instead, to borrow from Robert Frost, as "learning to listen to anything, without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

At Milton, Deval struck up a friendship with A. O. Smith, an English teacher who had taught at the school for 40 years, and his wife Aubrey. "He was so at ease with who he was," Patrick told the Boston Globe, "and that made it possible for him to open up to a whole group of people." The couple befriended him, taking him to Cape Cod during vacations where, as Aubrey Smith remembered, they would "chop wood, drink hot chocolate, and talk about the world."

His life and friendships at school began to have a noticeable effect on him, he told the Boston Globe. During one visit back home, his sister exclaimed, "He talks like a white boy." The remark triggered an uncomfortable silence. "He speaks like an educated boy," his grandmother corrected her.

But there were still a few shadows in Deval's life. One night when he was 15 years old, he recounted in the Washington Post, during a trip to McDonald's with his housemaster, "I remember...this incredible scene where the kids in the parking lot started banging on the window and shouting and chanting, "N-----! N-----! Get out of here!"... The housemaster was nervous and was trying to hustle us out of there....We got in the car and of course he didn't know what to say." But Patrick recalled his own reaction vividly: "I mean it's a lot that you feel: angry, you feel terrified, you feel helpless. The worst that happened was that someone, a couple people, threw their cigarette butts at me. Nobody actually hit me, but you still feel wounded. And if you're not real careful, you can feel ashamed too ... of who you are--and what you are--which is a disaster."

Patrick's success at Milton paved the way for an equally impressive college career. He applied to five Ivy League universities: Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Trinity, and Harvard, the one he wanted most because it was his mentor A. O. Smith's alma mater. He was admitted to all of them and was particularly thrilled by the beautiful calligraphy of Harvard's acceptance letter. He told the story in his Los Angeles Town Hall speech.

"Now, while everyone at Milton is of course expected to go to college, you must understand that no one in my family had ever been. I had applied to five colleges, but there was only one I really wanted. When the letter came on April 15 that I was admitted to that one, I called home and my grandmother picked up the phone. I told her my news, that I was going to Harvard. She told me how proud she was of me, so pleased, so excited, then she paused and said, "Where is that anyway?" His grandmother's words, he said, gave him an important perspective on success: "And I never forgot. Not at Harvard. Not at Harvard Law School. Not through any of the extraordinary experiences or associations I have had since that day."

In his undergraduate studies Patrick majored in English and American literature, where he discovered a particular fondness for the works of Mark Twain. His scholastic ability-~he graduated cum laude--helped him win a $5,000 Rockefeller Fellowship, which he used to study and travel--albeit on a shoestring--in Africa. During his year-long journey, he kept an application to Harvard Law School in his backpack. One night, in the desert, he wrote the required essay and filled out the form by flashlight. The school informed him of his acceptance via telegram sent to Khartoum.

Legal studies further honed Patrick's skills as a speaker and a leader. His team won a spot in the school's Ames Moot Court finals, a competition in which law students prove their skills by arguing actual cases before a Supreme Court justice. Patrick's team asked him to present the oral argument; he was named best speaker in the competition. He was also chosen to head Harvard's Legal Aid Bureau, an organization that gives legal services to the needy. In what would become a familiar type of case for him, Patrick defended a fellow Harvard student, also black, after he was arrested while driving with his white girlfriend.

After graduating with honors from Harvard Law School, he won a coveted clerkship with a federal judge in California, Stephen Reinhardt of the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. In 1983 he began to practice law in earnest when he joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, challenging racially biased death- penalty convictions and voting-rights cases.

In 1985 Patrick and other NAACP lawyers successfully defended three Alabama civil rights advocates who had been accused of fraud by the Justice Department in a voter-registration drive. In another case, Patrick prevailed against the state of Arkansas and its then- governor Bill Clinton for registration violations in conflict with the Voting Rights Act. "The right to vote is at the heart of a meaningful democracy," he later declared in a speech to the Organization of Chinese Americans. In his Los Angeles Town Hall speech he elaborated, "A person who is denied an effective voice in the governance of his nation simply cannot feel the same sense of investment in the affairs of that nation."

One of Patrick's biggest cases for the NAACP was McCleskey v. Kemp, the 1987 Supreme Court death-penalty appeal of Warren McCleskey, a black man who had murdered a white policeman. Patrick argued that his client's sentence should be overturned because capital punishment was unconstitutional. He based his defense on a study of 2,000 Georgia murder convictions which found that those who killed whites were sentenced to death 11 percent of the time, while only one percent of those who killed a black victim were similarly convicted. The study also revealed that blacks convicted of murder received the death penalty more often than whites, a bias that Patrick argued confirmed the illegality of capital punishment. The court disagreed, and McCleskey's sentence stood.

In 1986 Patrick left the NAACP to become a partner at Hill and Barlow, the respected Boston law firm that had once employed governors William Weld and Michael Dukakis. There Patrick continued to devote much of his time to pro bono social and political causes. In one case whose outcome he found particularly satisfying, he defended a group of low-income homeowners, most of them elderly black women, who said they had been illegally pressured into high- interest home-improvement loans by BayBanks, a local financial institution. In the settlement Patrick negotiated, BayBanks set aside $11 million to be used for low-income, low-interest housing loans. In another high-profile case Patrick represented beauty contestant Desiree Washington in her civil suit against boxer Mike Tyson.

On February 1, 1994, Patrick was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the post of assistant attorney general for civil rights. His nomination followed the unsuccessful bids of Lani Guinier, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania (and Patrick's cocounsel during his years at the NAACP), and John Payton, the District of Columbia corporation counsel, for the same position. Guinier had been faulted for what critics contended were her undemocratic proposals to increase minority representation and political clout. Payton withdrew after detractors denounced both his spotty voting record and his reluctance to use legal challenges to construct black-majority voting districts. Patrick's nomination was successful despite the similarity of his views to Guinier's, because unlike her, he lacked a paper trail of academic writings for opponents to seize upon. His solid experience as a civil rights lawyer also weighed heavily in his favor.

During his Senate confirmation hearings Patrick announced his intention, reported in the New York Times, to use the civil rights post as a "bully pulpit," and said that he would "move firmly, fearlessly, and unambiguously to enforce the antidiscrimination laws." He added that he believed it was Justice Department's responsibility to take the lead, "shaping policies and [filing] lawsuits that promote the notion of an inclusive democracy." His admirers said that Patrick's bold and direct approach would be a sea change from past years, reflecting the Clinton administration's more aggressive civil rights policies. Patrick's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 17, 1994.

Once in office, Patrick moved vigorously to reorganize the Justice Department's priorities. He assembled a team of government lawyers to defend legal challenges to voting districts that had been drawn to concentrate black and minority voters. His department also

settled the Denny's restaurant public accommodations lawsuit--the largest in American history--by convincing the chain to pay $45 million for alleged racial discrimination.

In another case that recalled the BayBanks settlement, Justice Department lawyers were able to force a Maryland bank, Chevy Chase Federal Savings, to serve black neighborhoods and provide low- interest loans to their residents. Even though the bank had not discriminated against anyone, Patrick and Attorney General Janet Reno criticized the financial institution because it avoided serving certain minority districts. The bank reluctantly agreed to a settlement in which it would designate $11 million to build new branches and provide below-market-rate loans and mortgages to minorities. This greatly worried members of the financial community, who protested that the Justice Department had exceeded its authority.

Others voiced similar complaints. A particular nemesis, Clint Bolick, a Wall Street Journal columnist and litigation director for the nonprofit law firm Institute of Justice, charged that Patrick used the threat of government litigation to force companies into settlements. "Mr. Patrick," he wrote, "seems determined to pursue high-profile cases that less resemble objective law enforcement than naked extortion." Nor is friction confined to the press: Patrick has felt antagonism from members of Congress as well.

Patrick acknowledges the criticism as part of his job, but it still makes him uncomfortable. "Being a lightning rod takes getting used to," he told Business Week. "If I walked on water, certain of my critics would still say that Patrick can't swim." He commented in the Washington Post that "[t]he job brings...difficult choices...because they're not always obvious choices under the law."

Patrick stands by his decisions, however difficult reaching them may be, because he is convinced that racism and discrimination can only be addressed by vigilant federal enforcement of civil rights laws. He cites statistics on hate crimes and the many accusations of police brutality brought by minorities to further his claim, and recalls his own bruises from the slings and arrows of discrimination. "To understand civil rights," he said in his swearing-in speech, which was quoted in the Washington Post, "you must understand how it feels. How it feels to be hounded by uncertainty and fear about whether you will be fairly treated. How it feels to be trapped in someone else's stereotype."

His mission, as he articulated it to the Organization of Chinese Americans, "is to reclaim the American conscience....to restore the great moral imperative that civil rights is finally all about; to recreate the shared national consensus that discrimination is wrong; and to return the language of civil rights to its essence, back to concepts of equality, opportunity, and fair play....We are a great nation, it seems to me, not just because of what we have accomplished, but because of what we have committed ourselves to become. And it is that sense of hope, that sense of looking forward, that I believe has made not only our civil rights movement, but ourselves as a nation, an inspiration to the world."

Awards

Michael Clark Rockefeller Traveling Fellowship, 1979; Harvard Law School George Leisure award, 1981.

Further Reading

Periodicals

• Boston Globe, April 23, 1987, National/Foreign section, p. 1.; April 25, 1987, Metro section, p. 17.; September 23, 1993, Living section, p.63.; February 2, 1994, National/Foreign section, p. 10; May 8, 1994, Focus section, p. 67; March 25, 1995, National/Foreign section, p. 1.; July 22, 1995, National/Foreign section, p. 8.
• October 26, 1994, p. A1.; October 21, 1995, National/Foreign section, p. 4.
• Business Week, Legal Affairs section, December 12, 1994.
• Chicago Tribune, June 22, 1994, section 1, p. 23.
• New York Times, February 2, 1994, p. A13.; March 11, 1994, section A, p. 24.
• Newsweek, February 13, 1995, p. 34.
• Wall Street Journal, October 26, 1994, p. A1; March 14, 1995, section A, p. 18; April 5, 1995, section A, p. 11; April 24, 1995, Letters to the Editor, section A, p. 15.
• Washington Post, September 23, 1993, Living section, p.63; February 2, 1994, p. A1; February 14, 1994, p. A13; May 8, 1994, Focus section, p. 67; March 25, 1995, National/Foreign section, p. 1.; July 22, 1995, National/Foreign section, p. 8.; August 9, 1995. Op- ed section; August 20, 1995, section C, p. 6.

• Patrick, Deval Laurdine. "The Rise in Hate Crime." Speech delivered at the Organization of Chinese Americans, Los Angeles, July 8, 1994. Vital Speeches LXI, no. 1, October 15, 1994, pp. 13-15.
• "Struggling for Civil Rights Now: Let Us Recapture Our Perspective." Speech delivered at the Town Hall Los Angeles Luncheon, Los Angeles, October 4, 1994. Vital Speeches LXI, no. 3, November 15, 1994, pp. 91-96.

— Amy Loerch Strumolo

Deval Patrick
71st Governor of Massachusetts
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 4, 2007
Lieutenant	Tim Murray
Preceded by	Mitt Romney
Born	July 31, 1956 (1956-07-31) (age 53) Chicago, Illinois, USA
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Diane Patrick
Children	Sarah Patrick Katherine Patrick
Residence	Milton, Massachusetts, USA
Alma mater	Harvard Law School (J.D.) Harvard College (B.A.)
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Presbyterian
Website	Governor Deval Patrick's webpage

Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the first African American to hold that office. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as United States Assistant Attorney General under President Bill Clinton.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 Clinton Administration 2.2 Business career 3 Campaign for Governor 4 Inauguration 5 2010 Campaign for re-election 6 Administration as Governor of Massachusetts 6.1 Firsts 6.2 Transition 6.3 Appointment of Interim Senator 6.4 Controversies 6.5 Cabinet 7 Political views: schools, jobs, and civic engagement 7.1 Education 7.2 Same-sex marriage 7.3 Death penalty 7.4 Energy policy 7.5 Health care 7.6 Life Sciences 7.7 Illegal immigration 7.8 2008 Democratic primary 7.9 Casino gambling 8 Electoral history 9 Footnotes 10 External links

Early life and education

Patrick was born on the South Side of Chicago, where his family resided in a two-bedroom apartment in Robert Taylor Homes housing projects. In 1959, his father Laurdine "Pat" Patrick, a member of jazz musician Sun Ra's band, left his wife Mae (née Wintersmith),^[1], their son Deval, and their daughter, Rhonda (who is one year Deval's senior) in order to play music in New York City^[2] and because he had fathered a daughter by another woman.^[3] Deval reportedly had a strained relationship with his father, who opposed his choice of high school, but they eventually reconciled.^[4] Patrick was raised by his mother, Mae, who traces her roots to American slaves in the American South, in the state of Kentucky.^[5]

While Patrick was 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 African American descent, which enabled him to attend Milton Academy.^[6][7] Patrick graduated from Milton Academy in 1974 and from Harvard College (with a concentration in English and American literature) in 1978. He then spent a year working with the United Nations in Africa. In 1979, Patrick returned to the United States and enrolled at Harvard Law School. While in law school, Patrick was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where he first worked defending poor families in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

He and his wife, Diane Patrick, née Bemus (b. 1951), a lawyer specializing in labor and employment law, married in 1984. They have lived in Milton, Massachusetts since 1989 and have two daughters, Sarah and Katherine. In July 2008, Katherine publicly announced that she is a lesbian, and mentioned that her father did not know this while fighting against an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution. In a joint interview Patrick expressed support for his daughter and said he was proud of her.^[8]

Career

Clinton Administration

In 1994, Clinton nominated Patrick Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate. As the head of the Civil Rights Division, Patrick worked on issues including racial profiling, police misconduct, fair lending enforcement, human trafficking, prosecution of hate crime, abortion clinic violence and discrimination based on gender and disability. He led what was (before the September 11, 2001 attacks) the largest federal criminal investigation in history as co-chair of the Task Force investigating the arsons of synagogues and Black churches in the South in the mid 1990's. He had a key role as an adviser to post-apartheid South Africa during this time and helped draft that country's civil rights laws.^[9]

His tenure was not without controversy. Federal affirmative action policy was under judicial and political review, and Patrick was thrust into Clinton's policy defense. Patrick also enforced federal laws concerning treatment of incarcerated criminals, to the extent that one warden called him a "zealot."^[10] He has also been criticized for his role in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals case Piscataway v. Taxman, wherein, due to budget constraints, a white woman named Sharon Taxman was laid off rather than a black woman of allegedly "identical" qualifications, because the school wanted diversity on its teaching staff. Taxman sued and prevailed in US District Court, but Patrick encouraged the Justice Department, which had supported Taxman in the Bush administration, to withdraw from the case. Taxman was subsequently rehired and eventually settled her suit.

Business career

In 1997, Patrick returned to Boston to join the firm Day, Berry & Howard, and was appointed by the federal district court to serve as Chairman of Texaco's Equality and Fairness Task Force to oversee implementation of the terms of a race discrimination settlement at Texaco. Working with employees at all levels, Patrick and his Task Force examined and reformed Texaco's complex corporate employment culture, and created a model for fostering an equitable workplace.^[11] After serving for nearly two years, he was appointed Vice President and General Counsel for the company in New York City, leading the company’s global legal affairs. From 2000 to 2004, Patrick worked as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. He resigned in 2004, ending nearly 6 years of weekly commuting between Massachusetts and jobs out of state.

Some gay rights activists have criticized him for his tenure on the United Airlines (UAL) board. During this time, the company fought a San Francisco ordinance requiring companies to offer domestic partnership benefits. Patrick contended that for a global company to comply with local employment ordinances in San Francisco would have set an unhelpful precedent. Patrick successfully encouraged UAL to offer such benefits to all employees, making it the first airline to do so.^[12]

In 2004, he was appointed to the board of directors of the firm that controls Ameriquest, the mortgage company infamous for predatory lending scandals. Ameriquest subsequently agreed to a $325 million dollar settlement regarding their predatory lending practices in 49 states.^[13] Deval Patrick resigned from the board on July 2, 2006.

Campaign for Governor

Main article: Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006

In 2005, Patrick announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts. He was at first seen as a dark horse candidate, facing veteran Massachusetts campaigners Thomas "Tom" Reilly and Chris Gabrielli in the Democratic primary. The Patrick campaign gained momentum at the Democratic State Caucuses, where it organized their supporters, many of whom had never been involved in such party processes before, to win twice as many pledged delegates as the Reilly campaign.^{[citation needed]}

Patrick secured the nomination in the September 2006 primary, winning 49% of the vote in a three-way race and carrying every county in the state. In the general election, he faced Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, a Republican, Christy Mihos, running as an Independent, and Grace Ross, of the Green-Rainbow Party.

On November 7, 2006, Patrick became the second elected African American state governor in United States history, the first being Commonwealth of Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, who was elected in 1989, and the third African American to serve as a United States state governor, the first being P.B.S. Pinchback, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, who ascended to the governorship of Louisiana in 1872, upon the impeachment and removal of his predecessor, Henry Clay Warmoth.^{[citation needed]}

Inauguration

Breaking with the tradition of being inaugurated in the House Chamber of the Massachusetts State House, Deval Patrick and Tim Murray took the oath of office, and Patrick delivered his inaugural address,^[14] outdoors on the West Portico of the State House facing Boston Common. This allowed a larger part of the public to witness and take part first hand in the event, and was intended to signal more open, transparent, and accessible government.^[15] This action also resulted in Mitt Romney, the outgoing Republican governor, having to take the traditional "lone walk" from the State House the prior evening before leaving office.^[16] The governor-elect was facing the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, just across Beacon Street, a memorial to the first black regiment in the U.S. Civil War. He took his oath of office on the Mendi Bible, which was given to then-Congressman John Quincy Adams by the freed American slaves from the ship La Amistad in honor of his heritage.^[17]

A series of regional inaugural balls, seven in all, were held to bring the inauguration to the citizens of the commonwealth. These celebrations took place on Cape Cod, in Worcester, Dartmouth, Pittsfield, Springfield, and Boston.^[18]

2010 Campaign for re-election

Main article: Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2010

On April 2, 2009, Patrick confirmed that he would run for re-election as Governor of Massachusetts.^[19]

Administration as Governor of Massachusetts

Firsts

On November 7, 2006, Patrick was elected to be the first African American governor of Massachusetts, the third black governor in United States history. He is one of two current African American governors, along with David Paterson of New York, the first time in U.S. history two black governors serve concurrently. He took office on January 4, 2007.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2007 Patrick announced that he was appointing former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police chief Joseph C. Carter to the position of The Adjutant General (TAG) of the Massachusetts National Guard making him the first African American TAG in the 370-year history of the state's Guard.^[20]

Transition

Before taking office, Patrick named a transition team headed by lawyer Michael Angelini, bank executive Ronald Homer, and Weld administration economic affairs secretary Gloria Cordes Larson.^[21] In his first meetings with the legislative leadership, he proposed his first action would be to hire 1000 new police officers and to expand full-day kindergarten statewide.^[22] He has since scaled back his original proposal and will hire only 250 officers.^[23] As part of the transition, Patrick created a series of working groups who held public meetings to advise him on various policy areas.^[24] The groups included a few names prominent in the election: Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charles D. Baker, Jr. on Budget & Finance, a Weld administration finance advisor who had been considered a potential GOP candidate for governor; Center of Women and Enterprise founder and candidate in the Lieutenant Governor's primary Andrea Silbert on Economic Development; and gubernatorial primary candidate Chris Gabrieli on PreK-12 Education.

Appointment of Interim Senator

On September 24, 2009, Patrick appointed Paul G. Kirk as the interim US senator in the wake of Ted Kennedy's death.^[25]

Controversies

During the 2006 Gubernatorial Election Patrick faced criticism for describing Benjamin LaGuer, a man convicted of a brutal eight-hour rape, as "thoughtful, insightful, eloquent, [and] humane".^{[citation needed]} Patrick, who supported the release of LaGuer, contributed $5,000 towards the DNA testing which backfired by further linking LaGuer to the crime.

Before taking office, Patrick faced criticism for urging legislators to ignore the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s finding that the legislature was constitutionally bound to take a second vote on whether or not to allow a citizen initiated referendum to define marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. The Massachusetts General Court ignored his call and voted not to place the measure on the ballot.

In the early months of Patrick's administration, a series of decisions the governor later conceded as missteps brought substantial unfavorable press. These included spending almost $11,000 on drapery for the governor's state house suite, changing the state's customary car lease from a Ford Crown Victoria to a Cadillac, and hiring a staff assistant (who had previously helped chair his election campaign) for the Commonwealth's first lady at an annual salary of almost $75,000. Emerging from a weekend of working on the state's budget and calling for cuts in services to taxpayers, Patrick responded in a February 20, 2007 press conference that "I realize I cannot in good conscience ask the agencies to make those choices without being willing to make them myself"^[26] Patrick subsequently reimbursed the Commonwealth for the cost of the drapery and furniture purchased for the state house, and the additional monthly difference in his car lease.^[26] First Lady Diane Patrick's staff assistant, Amy Gorin, resigned.^[27]

Later in the same month Patrick again came under fire, this time for contacting Citigroup Executive Committee chair, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin on behalf of the financially beleaguered mortgage company Ameriquest, a subsidiary of ACC Capital Holdings of which Patrick is a former board member. Both Citigroup and ACC Capital Holdings have substantial holdings in Massachusetts.^[28] Patrick attempted to deflect criticism claiming he was calling not as governor but as a private citizen. Later Patrick backed down, stating "I appreciate that I should not have made the call. I regret the mistake."^[28]

In December 2008, Patrick faced criticism from Massachusetts Republicans for the hiring of attorney and real estate consultant Dana Harrell to the newly created position of state Director of Real Estate Services.^[29] Harrell is a neighbor of Deval Patrick in Milton, and he and his wife have contributed to the governor's election campaign and to the Democratic State Committee.^[30] The appointment to the $120,000-per-year position came at a time when the state faced a $1.4 billion revenue shortfall which may cause Patrick to layoff 1,000 state workers and cut state aid to towns and cities.^[29][31]

Patrick came to the defense of Presidential candidate Barack Obama during the Democratic primary when it was reported that a few key phrases from one of Obama's stump speech were very similar to words used during Patrick's own 2006 Massachusetts Gubernatorial run. The charges of plagiarism were largely dismissed after Patrick explained that he had encouraged Obama to use the same quotes.

Cabinet

The Patrick Cabinet
OFFICE	NAME	TERM
Governor	Deval Patrick	2007 –
Lieutenant Governor	Tim Murray	2007 –
Secretaries of Executive Departments
Health and Human Services	JudyAnn Bigby, MD	2007 –
Energy and Environmental Affairs	Ian Bowles	2007 –
Public Safety	Kevin Burke	2007 –
Labor and Workforce Development	Suzanne Bump	2007 –
Transportation and Public Works	Bernard Cohen	2007 – 2009
	Jim Aloisi	2009 –
Administration and Finance	Leslie Kirwan	2007 – 2009
	Jay Gonzalez	2009 –
Education	Paul Reville	2008 –
Housing and Economic Development	Dan O'Connell	2007 – 2009
	Greg Bialecki	2009 –
Elder Affairs	Jennifer Davis Carey	2007 – 2007
	Michael E. Festa	2007 – 2009
	Ann L. Hartstein	2009 –
Veterans' Services	Thomas G. Kelley	2007 –
Special Advisors
Education	Dana Mohler-Faria	2007 – 2008

Political views: schools, jobs, and civic engagement

Education

Throughout his term in office, Patrick has made achieving “world-class public education” a main priority of his administration.^[32]

Same-sex marriage

Patrick favored the legalizing of same-sex marriage because of the fundamental principle that "citizens come before their government as equals".^[33][34] He worked with the state legislature to prevent a ballot measure eliminating same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, which reaffirmed the state's first-in-the-nation same-sex marriage allowance.^[35]

Death penalty

Patrick opposes the death penalty, saying that "the death penalty does not work. It hasn't worked in actually deterring crime, and it won't work for Massachusetts."^[33][36] This position had put him at odds with ex-Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, who wanted to "reinstate the death penalty for felons convicted of killing a law enforcement officer, judge, prosecutor or corrections officer".^[37]

Energy policy

Patrick was an early supporter of the Cape Wind energy project, at a time when prominent Massachusetts politicians from Mitt Romney to Ted Kennedy were working against it. His leadership on this issue was a key turning point in the early stage of the campaign, and tapped into the then-unknown widespread support held by over 70 percent of the state.^[38]

Health care

On health care reform, Patrick has called the new health insurance mandate an important first step that needs to be "implemented brilliantly", although far from the last word. He has said that the state needs to have a debate about moving towards single-payer health care.^[39][40]

Life Sciences

Patrick is a proponent of stem cell research and was critical of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for vetoing a stem cell bill. He proposes creating a bonding bill similar to California's recent path, and using it to invest in stem cell research at the University of Massachusetts, creating a simultaneous boost to the commonwealth's institutions of public higher education.^[41]

Illegal immigration

Patrick has called immigration a federal issue and has supported the McCain-Kennedy plan to tighten border control and create "pathway[s] to citizenship" for immigrants who have established lives in America.^[42] On the state level, he supports increased enforcement of employment laws to crack down on employers taking advantage of illegal immigrants, while opposing discrimination on the basis of immigration status for providing state services, including such things as public housing, in-state tuition for public universities, and drivers' licenses.^[43] Recently, he has acknowledged it may be impossible to go forward on drivers' licenses due to recent federal legislation.

2008 Democratic primary

Patrick speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Patrick supported Senator Barack Obama in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and stumped for him.^[44] In February 2008, the campaign of Obama's rival Hillary Clinton accused Obama of plagiarism for lifting a portion of a speech Patrick made during his 2006 Massachusetts campaign for use in his Wisconsin primary stump speech.^[45] Patrick later rebuffed this accusation, stating, "I am neither surprised nor troubled that he used the words that I asked him to use of my own."^[46] Patrick participated in a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Patrick was a leading candidate for Attorney General as well as Secretary of the Interior.

Casino gambling

Patrick submitted a bill that would allow the construction and operation of three resort-style casinos in the state. He argued that these casinos would generate $2 billion for the state economy and add $400 million in annual casino revenue and $200 million in fees per license to the state coffers as well as add $50 million to $80 million in sales, meal, and hotel taxes. He also touted that the casinos would create 30,000 construction jobs and 20,000 permanent jobs.^[47][48]

Patrick proposed that the revenue generated would be spent to beef up local law enforcement, create a state gambling regulatory agency, repair roads and bridges ($200 million), gambling addiction treatment ($50 million) and the remainder would go towards property tax relief.^[49][50]

Patrick's plan faced strong opposition from Salvatore DiMasi, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. DiMasi questioned the governor's projections of new jobs, revenues to be generated and was an opposed to what he referred to as a casino culture saying: "Do we want to usher in a casino culture – with rampant bankruptcies, crime and social ills – or do we want to create a better Massachusetts for all sectors of the society?"^[51][52]

On March 20, 2008 the Massachusetts House of Representatives rejected Patrick's casino bill by a vote of 108 to 46.^[53] Despite the overwhelming vote, questions were raised by critics of DiMasi as to the tactics he used to win. These included allegations that he promised a subsequent vote on a bill that would allow slot machines at the state's four racetracks and the pre-vote promotions of six lawmakers who had been thought to support the bill, but either abstained or voted against the bill. DiMasi denied that any promise had been made on the race track bill and denied that the promotions were connected to the casino bill vote.^[54][55][56]

Patrick's conduct was also criticized and his commitment to the bill questioned when it was revealed that he was not in the state on the day the bill was voted on in the legislature. As the bill was being voted down, Patrick was in New York City finalizing a $1.35 million dollar deal with Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, to publish his autobiography.^[57][58][59]

On January 2, 2009, Patrick joined the governors of four other states in urging the federal government to provide $1 trillion in aid to the country's 50 state governments to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure as states struggle with steep budget deficits amid a deepening recession.^{[citation needed]}

Electoral history

Massachusetts Gubernatorial Election 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Deval Patrick	1,234,984	55.6
	Republican	Kerry Healey	784,342	35.3
	Independent	Christy Mihos	154,628	6.9
	Green-Rainbow	Grace Ross	43,193	1.9

Democratic gubernatorial primary[60]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
Deval Patrick		452,229	49.57%
Chris Gabrieli		248,301	27.22%
Tom Reilly		211,031	23.13%
Write-in		787	0.08%
Blanks		14,054
Majority		203,928	22.35%
Turnout		926,402

Footnotes

1. ^ Ancestry of Deval Patrick
2. ^ "Beating odds, a uniter rose from Chicago's tough side", The Boston Globe, May 24, 2006
3. ^ The Boston Globe, March 25, 2007
4. ^ ibid.
5. ^ www.wargs.com
6. ^ Candidate Profile: Deval Patrick Beating odds, a uniter rose from Chicago's tough side, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2006
7. ^ A Better Chance Fall 2005 Newsletter
8. ^ Laura Kiritsy (2008-07-12). "With love and pride, Governor Deval Patrick’s daughter comes out publicly". Bay Windows. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc3=&id=75834. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 
9. ^ Boston University Law School Commencement Address by Deval Patrick, May 22, 2005
   Quote: "I even helped to write the anti-discrimination laws for the new government of South Africa."
10. ^ Prison demands 'over the top' - N.Y. jail boss details 'aggressive' hounding by gov hopeful Boston Herald October 12, 2006.
11. ^ Deval Patrick's Massachusetts state government webpage
12. ^ "Gay Rights Advocates Question Patrick: Domestic Partnerships at Issue" The Boston Globe, August 18, 2006
13. ^ "Reilly Seizes on Patrick's Tie to Lender" The Boston Globe, April 22, 2006
14. ^ http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3terminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Media+Center&L2=Speeches&sid=Agov3&b=terminalcontent&f=text_2007-01-04_inaugural&csid=Agov3
15. ^ review cool to inaugural speech plan The Boston Globe, December 14, 2006
16. ^ Democrats take sole control of Statehouse as Romney leaves office The Boston Globe, January 3, 2007
17. ^ Patrick to take oath on bible The Boston Globe, January 2, 2007
18. ^ Gov. Elect Deval Patrick To Hold 7 Inaugural Balls CBS4 Boston, December 6, 2006
19. ^ Gov. Patrick: "I will run again."
20. ^ Jim Boyd (2007-10-26). "Former MBTA Police Chief Makes History: Joseph Carter Becomes First Black To Head Massachusetts National Guard". WCVB. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14434921/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news. Retrieved 2007-10-26. 
21. ^ Patrick picks team leaders The Boston Globe, November 11, 2006
22. ^ Patrick will seek $120m for changes The Boston Globe, November 12, 2006
23. ^ Gov. plans budget cuts instead of new taxes
24. ^ Deval Patrick/Tim Murray Announce Transition Working Groups and Members' Press Release from November 22, 2006
25. ^ [1]
26. ^ ^{a b} "Patrick to repay taxpayers for decor $10,000 spent for drapes; governor to offset car costs.", Frank Phillips and Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe, February 21, 2007, retrieved March 17, 2007.
27. ^ Frank Phillips. "Patrick moves to shore up his staff" The Boston Globe, March 16, 2007, retrieved March 19, 2007.
28. ^ ^{a b} Martha Bebinger. "Patrick's Bad Call'" WBUR, March 7, 2007) retrieved March 17, 2007.
29. ^ ^{a b} Laurel J. Sweet (2008-12-30). "GOP slams Deval Patrick on $120G job for pal". Boston Herald. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2008_12_30_GOP_slams_Deval_Patrick_on__120G_job_for_pal/. Retrieved 2008-12-30. 
30. ^ Laurel J. Sweet (2008-12-29). "Deval Patrick hired neighbor for $120G job". Boston Herald. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1141761. Retrieved 2008-12-29. 
31. ^ Matt Viser (2008-12-30). "Mass. may face another $1 billion in budget cuts". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/12/mass_facing_ano.html. Retrieved 2008-12-30. 
32. ^ http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3subtopic&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Key+Priorities&L2=World-Class+Education+-+The+Readiness+Project&sid=Agov3
33. ^ ^{a b} Address to SEIU Local 509 Annual Convention at the Wyndham Hotel, Westborough, Massachusetts on October 29, 2005 DevalPatrick.com
34. ^ Healey backs proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage Boston Globe November 19, 2005
35. ^ http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/06/15/right_of_gays_to_marry_set_for_years_to_come/
36. ^ Deval Patrick Committee (June 28, 2005). "Deval Patrick Statement on the Death Penalty". Press release. http://web.archive.org/web/20061031052833/http://www.devalpatrick.com/press_releases.cfm?ID=9. Retrieved 2008-11-09. 
37. ^ Tough, Smart Solution to Change Massachusetts Section 23 Kerry Healey campaign website, September 20, 2006
38. ^ State House News Poll May 22, 2006
39. ^ Transcript of the Debate in Springfield The Boston Globe, October 4, 2006
40. ^ Live Video of Debate on Healthcare NECN, October 4, 2006
41. ^ Gubernatorial debate transcript The Boston Globe, October 4, 2006
42. ^ Illegal Immigration Issue Enters Governor's Race Keller@Large Blog, CBS4 Boston, September 24, 2006
43. ^ Sharp differences between Healey, Patrick on illegal immigration Boston Globe September 23, 2006
44. ^ Christopher Loh (2008-02-04). "Patrick stumps for Obama". Boston Now. http://www.bostonnow.com/news/local/2008/02/04/patrick-stumps-for-obama. Retrieved 2008-02-07. 
45. ^ [2]
46. ^ The Raw Story | Deval Patrick: I asked Obama to use my words
47. ^ David L. Ryan. "Casinos considered for state". Boston Globe. http://boston.com/business/gallery/topstories2007?pg=21. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
48. ^ Frank Phillips and Andrea Estes (2007-09-18). "Governor predicts a jackpot: Millions targeted for road, bridges, property tax relief: Proposal is hailed, faces turbulence on Beacon Hill". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/18/governor_predicts_a_jackpot/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
49. ^ Matt Viser (2008-03-06). "Patrick sends lawmakers brochure lauding casino plan: Softens figures on job creation". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/06/patrick_sends_lawmakers_brochure_lauding_casino_plan/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
50. ^ Andrea Estes (2007-10-10). "Homeowners could get casino payout: Patrick bill to share windfall via tax cut". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/10/homeowners_could_get_casino_payout/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
51. ^ Sean P. Murphy (2008-03-04). "DiMasi scoffs at casino job plan: Says governor's bid 'losing credibility'". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/04/dimasi_scoffs_at_casino_job_plan/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
52. ^ Steve LeBlanc (2008-03-13). "DiMasi dismisses Patrick casino claims as "just rhetoric"". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/13/casino_supporter_says_bill_has_only_outside_chance_of_passing/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
53. ^ Matt Viser (2008-03-21). "House rejects casino bill; backers vow to roll again: Racetracks, unions, tribe pursue strategies". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/21/house_rejects_casino_bill_backers_vow_to_roll_again/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
54. ^ Glen Johnson (2008-03-21). "Charges of deals promised, fulfilled and broken in casino debate". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/21/charges_of_deals_promised_fulfilled_and_broken_in_casino_debate/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
55. ^ Casey Ross (2008-03-22). "Pols tapped by Sal changed vote on casinos". Boston Globe. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1082009. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
56. ^ Casey Ross (2008-03-22). "DiMasi's deep six". Boston Globe. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1082011. Retrieved 2008-03-23. 
57. ^ Joan Vennochi (2008-03-30). "Patrick goes from 'we' to 'me'". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/30/patrick_goes_from_we_to_me/. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
58. ^ Matt Viser and Frank Phillips (2008-03-29). "Patrick captures $1.35m deal for life story: With lucrative contract comes political risk". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/29/patrick_captures_135m_deal_for_life_story/. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
59. ^ Howie Carr (2008-03-30). "Bio hazard: Gov's book deal exposes him as author-tunist". Boston Herald. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1083857&srvc=home&position=comment. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
60. ^ State Primary Election Results 2006 Massachusetts Elections Division official results (PDF, 196k)

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NAME	Patrick, Deval
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Governor of Massachusetts
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1956 (1956-07-31) (age 53)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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