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...million donation from the Broads will be announced Thursday at a press conference that will feature Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78, as well as both Harvard President Drew G. Faust and MIT President Susan Hockfield...
That sort of change wasn't talked about from the podium much, and not at all by Obama. At best it was smuggled in like samizdat poetry in speeches like the one by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, another of the young black innovators. "Democrats don't deserve to win just because Republicans deserve to lose," he said...
...however, New Orleans' fate has been largely absent from the campaign conversation. Its few appearances have been more rhetorical than substantive - a way for the Democrats to attack the GOP's record rather than to propose what to do about a city that remains in crisis. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick referred to it briefly: "The same folks who call themselves 'compassionate conservatives' are the same folks who abandoned all those people, not only after Katrina, but before the storm. The American people have had enough." Bill Clinton used Katrina to assail the Bush Administration for cronyism. Yet amid a riveting...
DENVER—Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78 spoke about the rise of the youth vote to a group of Harvard affiliates in Denver for the Democratic National Convention...
...African American and first woman to hold her city's top law-enforcement post. The Howard University graduate spent several wintry days knocking on doors in Iowa for Obama. She comes to her activism honestly: her parents met at a Berkeley student protest. Another Obama backer is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two current African-American governors. Patrick, 52, shocked the commonwealth's political establishment in 2006 when he came out of nowhere to defeat a long-favored Democrat in the primary and trounce an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor in the general election. His name is often floated...