Mihos To Run For Governor As Independent

Mihos To Run For Governor As Independent

Former Mass Pike Board Member To Enter Race

POSTED: 3:14 pm EST March 1, 2006
UPDATED: 3:32 pm EST March 1, 2006

BOSTON -- Christy Mihos will announce Thursday that he intends to run for the governor
of Massachusetts as an Independent, NewsCenter 5 has learned.

Mihos, a former Massachusetts Turnpike board member and registered Republican, is expected
to hold a news conference sometime Thursday to announce his decision.

But if Mihos's independent streak will appeal to some voters, it could also prove to be a liability in his campaign. His impolitic remarks yesterday at the forum, for example, raised more than a few eyebrows.

Mihos was the last gubernatorial candidate to speak. After giving his wife, Andrea, a peck on the check, he strode to the microphone and promised to be brief by saying, ''My wife says I'm awful fast, so I'll try to stick to that." The joke prompted groans from many of the 400 people in attendance.

Moments later, Mihos noted that he had been married for 31 years; he joked that he married his wife when she was 5 years old. ''That will get me points tonight, too," he said to awkward silence.

After the event, Mihos was asked by reporters about his wife having told him in the past that she didn't want him to run for public office.

''She made a deal," Mihos said. ''She said, 'You can do whatever you want as long as I can have a new wardrobe.' It's going to cost me more to fund her wardrobe than it is to fund my campaign, I think."

Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Mihos is running as an I.
posted by Cyndi Roy, Communications Dir. @ 4:04 PM

Extreme partisans are locked in a perpetual stalemate where power and influence is sold to the highest bidder. Just look at Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham.

Massachusetts is no different. Both political parties are more concerned with holding onto power than with helping people. The politics of confrontation has replaced cooperation. How else to explain the stalled economic stimulus package or the travels and tribulations of Governor Romney?

Throughout the country, our party system has become little but a form of political bondage designed to force people into a straitjacket of hero worship and partisanship