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Brian Richard Cook

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Brian Richard Cook

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Brian Richard Cook was a 2016 Democratic candidate for Plymouth & Norfolk District of the Massachusetts State Senate.

Campaign themes

2016

Cook's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Education

  • Every child should be given an opportunity to develop their talent to pursue a trade, a college education, or public or military service. We owe it to our communities to make sure they receive the funding necessary to create safe, efficient, and effective school systems with resources to encourage academic success and positive participation on co-curricular activities. Children who are good citizens are our greatest resource and our greatest accomplishment.

Employment

  • A good job is the cornerstone of a good life, a functioning community, an opportunity for home ownership, and the foundation for building strong families. Every effort must be made to encourage businesses to consider our communities as places suitable for their businesses and their work force. Small businesses and places of employment need to be assisted in providing services and employment options close to home.

Transportation

  • We cannot be held hostage to inefficient and costly transportation options. The system is broken and the traffic, lack of commuting options, and inefficient commuting alternatives must be addressed to improve our lives and provide more time at work or at home – and less time stuck in traffic.

Substance Abuse

  • Any member of our society who is struggling with dependency issues impacts a productive society. In addition to the emotional cost there are manpower hours lost, increases in crime, and depletion of our police and community resources; these are costs we cannot bear to incur. Greater effort must be made to address substance abuse in the schools. Resources must be employed to provide support, counseling and recovery. Costs to be incurred are better spent addressing the problem rather than reacting to its byproducts.

Senior Care

  • Our seniors who have spent their lives providing for us need to be respected and cared for them they can no longer care for themselves. Affordable housing options, assisted living option, and reasonably priced nursing home facilities are the mark of a caring, successful society. Our seniors should be honored not discarded.

Veterans

  • To those who served I say thank you. But ‘thank you’ is not enough. We need to make sure that those who sacrificed for our freedom and security are assisted, honored, and encouraged to transition back into our community with housing, medical care, and training to secure a well-paying job that allows them to use the skills learned while in service, and be taught skills needed to compete in today’s economy. God knows they have earned that.[1]
 ”
—Brian Cook, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 8, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016.

Incumbent Patrick O'Connor defeated Paul Gannon in the Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth & Norfolk District general election.[3][4]

Massachusetts State Senate, Plymouth & Norfolk District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Patrick O'Connor Incumbent 56.61% 52,440
     Democratic Paul Gannon 43.39% 40,193
Total Votes 92,633
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


Joan Meschino defeated Brian Richard Cook in the Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth & Norfolk District Democratic Primary.[5][6]

Massachusetts State Senate, Plymouth & Norfolk District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Joan Meschino 59.60% 3,773
     Democratic Brian Richard Cook 40.40% 2,558
Total Votes 6,331


Incumbent Patrick O'Connor defeated Stephen Gill in the Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth & Norfolk District Republican Primary.[5][6]

Massachusetts State Senate, Plymouth & Norfolk District Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Patrick O'Connor Incumbent 77.38% 3,868
     Republican Stephen Gill 22.62% 1,131
Total Votes 4,999

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Cook for Senate, "Priorities," accessed September 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016


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