Scot Lehigh, whose political acumen is a sharp as any newsperson in the state calls the LG race as he sees it and makes the great case for Andrea Silbert for Lt. Governor in today’s Globe…
“Goldberg’s candidacy took a home-town torpedo last week when the Brookline Tab endorsed Andrea Silbert — and accused the former selectwoman of exaggerating her role in Brookline’s governance.
Judging from the debates, as lieutenant governor Murray and Goldberg would dedicate themselves to tending to the needs of the state’s cities and towns. When it comes to ensuring adequate local aid, his conscience simply wouldn’t allow him to keep quiet, Murray told CBS4’s Jon Keller.
By my count, with 40 senators and 160 representatives regularly doing the same thing, we’d then have 201 public officials committed to that task.
And that’s why I’m impressed with Silbert. As cofounder of the Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit training center for entrepreneurs, she’s done something different, and as number two she would try to do something different: focus on job creation. What’s more, she actually seems to know something about it.
Further, she’s the only candidate iconoclastic enough to support lifting the cap on charter schools.
Now, I don’t expect busy voters to endure the arduous LG triathlon.
But check out even one of the events and I think you’ll conclude that Andrea Silbert is the real star in this field.”
