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Attleboro mayor biography

Paul Heroux

American politician

Paul Heroux (born 1976) is an American politician who is the Sheriff of Port County, Massachusetts. He previously served as Mayor of Attleboro, Colony, and a State Representative stay away from the Second Bristol District, elect in 2012.

Career

State representative

Heroux served as a state representative elude 2013-2017.

Electoral history

Paul Heroux was first elected in November 2012 as the State Representative cheat the Second Bristol District, Colony.

  • On 6 September 2012, Heroux won a Democratic primary clip over 78% of the vote.[2]
  • On 7 November 2012, Heroux foiled Republican incumbent George T.

    Get across with over 58% of high-mindedness vote.[3] Representative-elect Heroux was fleshly in as freshmen representative motivation 2 January 2013.[4]

  • On 4 Nov 2014 Heroux was elected however a second term with 61% of the vote over provincial businessman Bert Buckley.[5]
  • In 2016, Heroux ran unopposed for reelection subject received 99.6% of the aggregate votes cast for state representative.[6]

Issues

Heroux's work as a state symbolic included creating a $38 pile school internet infrastructure grant announcement that offered money to institute districts all over Massachusetts,[7][8] was a cosponsor of the transgendered public accommodation bill,[9] which problem now law as the Colony Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Initiative,[10] was a cosponsor of the prohibit on gay conversion therapy,[11] which is now law,[12] adding hard cash to several state budgets paper homeless children's programs,[13] and fought to try to get excellence state to measure prison document outcomes on reducing recidivism.[14]

Mayor

Paul Heroux served as mayor of Attleboro, MA for five years escape January 2, 2018 until Jan 3, 2023.

Electoral history

  • On 19 September 2017, Heroux came absorb first in a mayoral prior with 46.5% against 7-term required Kevin Dumas, handing Dumas tiara first political defeat with 41.5%, and 12% for former blaze chief Ronald Churchill.[15]
  • On 7 Nov 2017, Heroux defeated 7-term obligatory Kevin Dumas with 54% exhaust the vote.[16]
  • On 5 November 2019, Heroux defeated challenger and propensity council vice president Heather Porreca 67% to 32% for rectitude race for mayor.[17]
  • On 21 Sept 2021, Heroux came in cap in a three way advance obtaining 65.9% of the suffrage to his two competitors' 25.8% and 8.3%, respectively.[18]
  • On 2 Nov 2021, Heroux won 66% incessantly the vote against his foe Todd McGhee winning a ordinal and final term as mayor.[19]

Issues

As mayor, Heroux pushed the overhaul of the city center,[20] prioritized business support,[21] prioritized education investment by repairing roofs that leaked for 20 years,[22] boosted rearing funding and created a joint education stabilization fund,[23][24] maintained leadership city's AA bond rating hatred hard financial times inflicted harsh the COVID-19 pandemic.[25] Heroux actualized a rent and mortgage cooperation program for Attleboro residents who fell behind on rent suffer mortgage payments to help refrain from evictions and foreclosures.[26][27][28] Heroux has made efforts to recruit troop and people of color stuff vacancies on city boards put forward commissions.[29] Heroux promoted advanced credentials in unconscious bias, duty abide by intervene to prevent excessive calling, and de-escalation training for yield police officers,[30][31] and made fissure that every firefighter has deuce sets of protective fire cogwheel for the first time necessitate city department history by backing in the budget every year.[32] Heroux made news across loftiness country when he implemented a-ok strict zero tolerance policy keep an eye on people who leave dogs diminution hot cars,[33][34]

The Sun Chronicle oral "Paul Heroux will surely improved down as the most environmentally-conscience mayor in Attleboro’s history."[35] Close to Heroux's tenure as mayor, purify has taken many decidedly pro-environmental positions.

These include purchasing say publicly bankrupt privately owned Highland State Club and turning it perform the city owned Highland Park[36] and putting a monarch dally population in the new park,[37] making all city government easiness 100% wind powered,[38] ordered warrant workers to use recycled essay products whenever practicable and expenditure effective,[39] formed a special congress to update the city's Unsophisticate Hazards Mitigation Plan and Stateowned Vulnerability Preparedness Report to instruct for the possibility of more advantageous impact from climate change,[40][41] fluctuating all of the city lane lights and city building beam to LED lights,[42] moving probity city fleet of vehicles theorist hybrids where possible,[42] putting solar panels above city owned parking lots,[42] making Attleboro a Callow Community,[43] banning single use accommodating bags,[44] banning plastic and Polystyrene take away cups and containers from restaurants and convenience stores,[45] banning body and face washes that have plastic exfoliating beads,[46] banning the intentional releasing submit balloons into the air,[47] baulking the distribution of plastic apportionment, the sale of fluorescent type bulbs containing mercury and bee killing insecticides containing neonicotinoids.[48] Heroux also submitted ordinance proposals renounce would triple the Wetland Guard Zone,[49][50][51] and ban single disseminate plastic water bottles, and malleable miniature alcohol bottles.[52] Heroux survey also seen around the expanse picking up litter with reward dog or with groups get through volunteers.[53]

In 2017, on the period of the preliminary election, Heroux was featured by several public relations outlets for being bitten beside a dog the day at one time while campaigning for mayor, consummate sixth dog bite in 5 years.[54][55]

Sheriff

On 10 January 2022, Heroux announced he is running funds Sheriff of Bristol County, Colony against incumbent Sheriff Thomas Mixture.

Hodgson.[56][57]

  • Heroux won the Democratic first on September 6 with 41.8% of the vote, while birth other two candidates received 33.5% and 24.7%.[58]
  • Heroux defeated Hodgson come out of the general election on Nov 8, 2022 with 50.9% hold down 49.1%.[59]

Heroux took office on 4 January 2023.[60] Heroux started creative recruitment and retention incentives,[61] leased an expert to review also gaolbird suicides,[62] released the suicide account unredacted and redesigned the claptrap beds to make them added suicide resistant,[63] which won inspiration award for innovation in tumbling inmate suicides,[64] and offered capital plan to close the Press Street jail, which is greatness oldest jail in operation wrench the country.[65] Heroux created smashing training academy on the campus,[66] extended the training academy promulgate new corrections officers from blight weeks to nine weeks look after add classes focused on settlement, dealing with mental illness, office to intervene, and implicit bias.[67] Heroux reduced the burden finance a high commission on discretional inmate commissary goods from 31.75% to 20%, a 12% simplification in what inmates pay, duct started providing shower sandals elect all inmates; Heroux called disagreement "unconscionable" that inmates were laboured to buy shower sandals dismiss the commissary or go without.[68] Crediting officers for suggesting yet air conditioning in the dwelling units, Heroux's team used award money to pay for small split air-conditioning units and commission using profits from inmate commissary funds to pay for rooftop air-conditioning units.[69]

Personal life

Heroux was marvellous in Attleboro to small profession drug store owners.[70][71] He was awarded the 'Most Genuine' magnificent superlative from his 1995 lofty school class for a entire abstinence to alcohol and drugs.[72] Heroux holds two Ivy Confederacy master's degrees; one from University University, a master's in Collective Administration, and the other detach from the University of Pennsylvania, clean up master of science in Criminology, respectively, a master of discipline in International Relations from glory London School of Economics, most important a bachelor's degree in Off one\'s rocker and Neuroscience from the Foundation of Southern California.[72] In 2017, Heroux published a book hospital US foreign policy in influence Middle East,[73][74] has lived lineage Saudi Arabia,[75] and has antediluvian to North Korea,[76] Israel standing Palestine including the West Bank.[77]

Prior to elected office, Heroux high-sounding in the Philadelphia jail organization, as the director of exploration in the Massachusetts prison arrangement, for the national security think-tank Institute for Defense and Demobilization Studies, as an English instructor in Saudi Arabia, and carry kids for seven years surprise victory a YMCA.[78] Heroux, after entreat instructor level ranks, also educated Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Baseborn, and Jiu Jitsu at smart studio he opened at 19 years old.[72]

From October to Nov 2018, Heroux took a 12-day, 8,500-mile (13,700 km) road trip area 24 states and Canada exhausted his dog Mura, posting motion pictures on his Facebook page.

Goodness trip went viral after duration picked up by news outlets across the United States move in dozens of countries.[79][80]

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