Grossman Opens Up Worcester Campaign Office

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Nicholas Handy, GoLocalWorcester Contributor

Steve Grossman – a Democratic gubernatorial candidate – has officially opened the doors on his new campaign office, located at 691 Grafton St. in Worcester.

Grossman, who says that his connections to Worcester and Central Massachusetts are strong through both family business partnerships and legislative partnerships, says that having a centralized office in the state is important to his campaign so that he can reach additional citizens.

“We have been active in Worcester for the entire campaign,” said Grossman. “We have a very strong foundation here. I wanted to have a headquarters her so that people can come and grab lawn signs and can become more engaged with the campaign.”

Grossman is currently running against Martha Coakley and Don Berwick to become the Democratic candidate for Governor. Although behind Coakley in the polls, Grossman does have the endorsement of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.

Efforts in Worcester

As governor, Grossman says that there are a few fronts that he would like to work on to make both Worcester and Central Massachusetts even stronger.

Chief among these fronts are working on the heroin epidemic by educating and changing the way cities handle lower level drug offenses, bringing manufacturing jobs back to Worcester and further developing the small business economy, rebuilding and renovating the public schools to help offer quality education to everyone, and investing more money and resources in transportation to further connect central Massachusetts to the rest of the state.

Grossman says that Worcester and Central Massachusetts already have many of the tools, people, and resources ready to make some of these changes come to fruition; it would be his duty as governor to help provide additional resources to help make things happen.

“If you look at the history of manufacturing, Worcester practically invented manufacturing,” said Grossman. “Worcester has made a number of significant strides and there have been a number of major investments on a number of fronts throughout the city. My campaign has been all about finding common sense solutions to problems; as governor I want to work on building one Commonwealth that leaves no person behind.”

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