Is Deb Goldberg Running Again for Treasurer

Michael P. Norton

Ii-term Treasurer Deb Goldberg may wait until next year to officially announce her political plans but seemed to tip her hand in a radio interview Thursday when she said she looked frontward to working with the next governor and talked about how much she loves her task.

Goldberg said she spoke with Gov. Charlie Bakery on Wednesday, the day he announced he would not seek reelection, about the work they face up leading up to the next statewide elections on Nov. 8, 2022.

"We talked about how much more than nosotros still accept to do within the next year, and I look forward to whomever becomes governor in the future having a very positive working relationship," Goldberg, a Democrat from Brookline, said during her Bloomberg Baystate Business interview. "The administration and finance section and my greenbacks and debt department demand to exist real partners in much of what they do. And so I hope that we can continue to accept the kind of positive working relationships that are very critical — maybe not well known about — but very critical to the economic stability of our country."

Hosts Tom Moroney and Joe Shortsleeve asked Goldberg, who was the runner-up in the 2006 Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, about whether she might run for governor, a bid that several of her predecessors — Joe Malone, Shannon O'Brien, Tim Cahill — undertook without success.

"I beloved my job," Goldberg said initially. When Moroney asked if he should then put her down as a "possibly," Goldberg added, "No, no. There's no maybe. I am very happy where I am."

Goldberg chosen the job of state treasurer "so fascinating" and said she was constantly stimulated and challenged past the piece of work while adding that well-nigh people "don't even know what the treasurer does."

While she talked nearly working every bit treasurer in 2023, after next Nov'due south elections, Goldberg would not really ostend that she's running again.

"I am talking well-nigh that very presently with family unit and friends," she said, breaking into laughter.

She added: "I am not telling you that here and at present. There'south no rush."

Asked about the timeline for an official proclamation, Goldberg said: "I would think that annihilation after than the beginning of Feb would be a little crazy. We accept the [political party] caucuses coming upwards and, y'all know, making your position known is pretty important prior to that and then making sure that others within the party understand that you are non vacating the seat, because you know rumors swirl and people have ambitions, and so."

While discussing how she's been able to work as treasurer with Republicans, whether it be Bakery or GOP treasurers in other states, Goldberg said: "I don't think that it's of import what political party the governor comes from. I recall it's of import that the governor is prepared to lead the land."

Shortsleeve circled back to that annotate later in the interview to suggest voters in Massachusetts take shown they like having Republican governors since over the past three decades they elected William Weld and Charlie Baker twice, and Paul Cellucci and Mitt Romney in one case.

"I remember that it depends on the person," Goldberg responded, pivoting to the Democrat who seized the governor's office for two terms starting in 2007. "I hateful, Deval Patrick was swept in on a landslide when he ran in 2006. So it's pretty articulate that the voters didn't take that issue at that fourth dimension. So I honestly think it's who the candidate is."

Patrick defeated Baker in the 2010 election for governor, and Baker started his tenure in the corner office afterwards edging onetime Attorney General Martha Coakley in the 2014 ballot.

Goldberg connected, serving up some 2022 ballot analysis.

"I recollect that the contrast will come up out in whatsoever kind of campaign, that exists, and who is all-time at this time and in this space to address the needs and the concerns of people who live in Massachusetts," she said. "You know, Massachusetts may exist dominated in the Legislature by the Democrats merely, candidly, the voters are unenrolled. And so they are very thoughtful about how they view those that they elect. And they volition brand that pick next November."

As of February. ane, 2021, Democrats accounted for 31.half-dozen percent of registered voters in Massachusetts, Republican voters made up 9.7 percentage and the unenrolled majority stood at 57.4 percentage.

Heading toward 2022, the races for at to the lowest degree half of the state's six constitutional offices — governor, lieutenant governor and auditor — are now wide open. Attorney General Maura Healey and Secretary of Land William Galvin accept not appear their plans. Healey is weighing a possible run for governor.

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Source: https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/regional/2021/12/04/state-treasurer-seems-tip-hand-reelection-plans/8856613002/

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