Cahill to announce candidacy for governor

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill will announce that he is running for governor on Wednesday, according to several people close to his campaign.

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill

Cahill has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. He will kick off the campaign at a fund-raiser Thursday night at the Adams Inn in Quincy.

The lifelong Democrat has been state treasurer since 2003. He moved toward an independent candidacy for governor in July when he dropped out of the Democratic Party and became an unenrolled voter.

“I just feel like I don’t fit the party,” Cahill said at the time. “I’m a fiscal conservative and have been railing at the spending and the taxing decisions over the past year. I don’t seem to be getting anywhere from inside the party, so maybe I can be more effective outside the party. We’ll see.”

Polls taken by the Globe and Cahill showed he would do well in matchups with the other candidates, if the election were held now.