“Students should be graduating in Massachusetts with independence, with resilience, with critical thinking skills, with grit, with the knowledge that they can overcome obstacles. We have to re-think the way our education system works to focus on those outcomes.” —Evan Falchuk
United Independent gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk today pledged “smart, brave reform” on issues including health care, fiscal policy, taxes, education and campaign finance if elected to the corner office.
Falchuk, an attorney who spent 15 years on the executive team of Boston-based Best Doctors Inc. and has been active with organizations such as the National Coalition on Health Care, said he founded the United Independent Party on the premises that everyone is equal; everyone’s civil rights have to be protected; and government must spend the state’s money wisely.
“I was always someone who looked for candidates who believed in fiscally sensible solutions, forward thinking, pragmatic new ideas, but what I found were a lot of candidates that wanted to argue about left versus right and big government versus small government and high taxes versus low taxes,” Falchuk said during the seventh in a series of gubernatorial roundtable discussions sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School. “So rather than just complain about it, I decided to do something about it. That’s why I’m running for governor.”
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