Cahill finds common ground with Tea Party crowd

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Independent gubernatorial candidate Timothy Cahill says he found some common ground with the people attending Wednesday's Tea Party Express on the Boston Common.

"Well, I think that many of the people I met yesterday were focused on more fiscal restraint, smaller government, lower taxes, private enterprise and greater individual freedom. Those are things I support," Cahill, the state treasurer who once was a Democrat, said this afternoon in a live chat on boston.com.

Cahill also says he got the sense from the crowd that people feel like their elected officials aren't listening and don't care what the people think.

"They feel like government is being run by insiders and big corporate special interests. People want elected leaders to listen to their input and solve problems. I think that's a lesson that as elected officials, we all would do well to remember. We do work for them, after all," he said in the chat.