Herald and PDN pick Josh Cutler

A clean slate for the Plymouth 6th District State Rep seat
Josh Cutler is the obvious best choice

By Walter Brooks

We have only two concerns in endorsing Josh Cutler to replace Dan Webster for the Plymouth 6th District:

1. Why encourage Mr Cutler to attempt the impossible task of straightening out our benighted State Legislature at the expense of taking one of New England's best community newspaper publishers away from his blue pencil, and
2. We hate to follow the lead of the Boston Herald which turned it's back on the ultra conservative Tea Party sycophant Mr. Webster with these word: Voters in the 6th Plymouth district have a strong choice in Democrat Josh Cutler of Duxbury, a former newspaper editor with a law degree who wants to subject the Legislature to the Open Meeting law and has pledged not to accept those loathsome per diem payments.

Josh Cutler and his wife, Leslie, and son, Charlie.Despite these tongue-in-cheek caveats, we suggest he is the best man for the job for these reasons as well.

• He is endorsed by the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters which said in their endorsement "Josh recognizes that protecting the environment of this district is key to the vitality of the local economy and he has been a local leader who has fought to protect open space. A new leader like Cutler is sorely needed in the State House. "
• Cutler wants to put a halt to "per diem" perks for State Rep's commute, He has said, “Here on the South Shore there are thousands of hard-working residents who commute into work every morning to earn a living. They are the ones who deserve a break."
• If this isn't enough, his opponent, incumbent State Rep Dan Webster, had the 4th worst roll call attendance record in the State Legislature. He even missed 28 roll calls in one day.

In other words, Josh Cutler will pay his own commute to work (like the rest of us), and he will show up for the work we pay our legislators to perform.

Josh Cutler is 39 and is a Duxbury native who's lived in the Sixth Plymouth District for more than twenty years. He's married and has one son and another child on the way. He is a lifelong newspaperman and an attorney.

He deserves your vote.