(The following was originally published in the LowellSun.)
Falchuk, a Newton resident who’s worked as a Washington, D.C., attorney and president of a health-care company, founded the United Independent Party last year, He is running as one of two third-party candidates in this year’s governor’s race.
Falchuk said he started the party to address what he views as a problem in the existing political ecosystem.
“This what people do all the time here at this entrepreneurial center,” he said after touring M2D2. “What’s happening is people say, “I see a problem, and I think I know how to solve it, and now it’s just a matter of building the structure to make it a reality. This is something we see all the time in the private sector, but we don’t see it very often in politics.”