Worcester Magazine, the freebie news, arts & entertainment weekly, has this to say about Dan Shea’s run for DA:
STARS AT NIGHT, BIG AND BRIGHT, DEEP IN THE HEART OF WORCESTER: We all heard this week that a new wild-card candidate had pulled papers to run for District Attorney. Lawyer Dan Shea is best known around here for his work on the clergy abuse scandal and his defense of conte2006.com proprietor Mary Jean, but is still only reachable on his Texas-area cell phone. Thatâs changing, Shea says. He tells us he signed a contract and a mortgage for a new place in town on Tuesday â not even a full day after pulling papers to run. âI was coming back [to Worcester] anyway,â says Shea. âI wonât only be a politician, Iâll be a taxpayer, and Iâll be a real, live, Worcester person.â Shea says that he has gotten â if not the blessing, at least some positive feedback â from some state-level Democrats for his run. Word on the street is that the âfeedbackâ was essentially an acknowledgement of his right to run, and no more. Regardless, Shea is already giving with the all-out rhetoric. While some of his remarks echo establishment candidate Joe Early Jr.âs remarks on running to replace Conte, he can still bust out a gem like, âThereâs a sense out there in the community … [that they want a candidate] … other than someone who has spent their whole life in Worcester.â Interesting strategy.
It looks like it will be an interesting campaign season in Central Mass.
