Patrick sees possibility of primary challenge
By Globe Staff
Governor Deval Patrick, who some had speculated might be up for a post in the Obama administration, reiterated today that he isn’t going to Washington and expects to run for reelection. He also said he expected that he might face a primary challenge.
 Gov. Deval Patrick. (Globe File Photo) |
“I told you I wasn’t going. I’m not going. I’m still here. And, you know, if the people will have me, I’ll be around for a second term,” he said.
“Look, I fully expect that I’m going to be challenged, probably in the primary, let alone the general. That’s good. None of us is entitled to these jobs, none of us. I certainly am not, and I welcome the challenge, and I think incumbents ought to,” he said in an appearance on WTTK-FM’s “Ask the Governor” segment.
Patrick shrugged off a question about whether he had ever discussed a post in Washington with the team of president-elect Barack Obama.
“I am not under oath and I don’t have to answer that,” Patrick said, bantering with talk show host Jim Braude.
Patrick, a political ally and personal friend of Obama, will be up for reelection in 2010.
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