[waitingforcorrection: did audio file get updated? and duration added? also, amazon link is broken.] In 2007, Governor Deval Patrick became the first black governor of Massachusetts. In his first term, Patrick oversaw the implementation of the state’s 2006 health care reform program, defended the legality of same-sex marriages and increased the state’s sales tax to 6.5 percent. Now in his second term, the man born into poverty on Chicago’s South Side has written a memoir called “A Reason to Believe: Lessons From an Improbable Life.” Governor Deval Patrick joins The Takeaway to talk about his path to the governor’s mansion — and the road ahead.
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