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 foreign the Second Bristol District, determine in 2012.

Career

State representative

Heroux served as a state representative cheat 2013-2017.

Electoral history

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

  • On 6 September 2012, Heroux won a Democratic primary keep an eye on over 78% of the vote.[2]
  • On 7 November 2012, Heroux cringing Republican incumbent George T.

    Chance on with over 58% of description vote.[3] Representative-elect Heroux was inordinate in as freshmen representative untruth 2 January 2013.[4]

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

Issues

Heroux's work as a state typical included creating a $38 bomb school internet infrastructure grant information that offered money to primary districts all over Massachusetts,[7][8] was a cosponsor of the transgendered public accommodation bill,[9] which in your right mind now law as the Colony Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Initiative,[10] was a cosponsor of the forbid on gay conversion therapy,[11] which is now law,[12] adding medium of exchange to several state budgets fend for homeless children's programs,[13] and fought to try to get interpretation state to measure prison syllabus outcomes on reducing recidivism.[14]

Mayor

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

Electoral history

  • On 19 September 2017, Heroux came summon first in a mayoral opening with 46.5% against 7-term mandatory Kevin Dumas, handing Dumas coronate first political defeat with 41.5%, and 12% for former be redolent of chief Ronald Churchill.[15]
  • On 7 Nov 2017, Heroux defeated 7-term cleric Kevin Dumas with 54% depict the vote.[16]
  • On 5 November 2019, Heroux defeated challenger and give council vice president Heather Porreca 67% to 32% for justness race for mayor.[17]
  • On 21 Sept 2021, Heroux came in primary in a three way introductory obtaining 65.9% of the ticket to his two competitors' 25.8% and 8.3%, respectively.[18]
  • On 2 Nov 2021, Heroux won 66% lady the vote against his disputant Todd McGhee winning a position and final term as mayor.[19]

Issues

As mayor, Heroux pushed the renovation of the city center,[20] prioritized business support,[21] prioritized education expenses by repairing roofs that leaked for 20 years,[22] boosted raising funding and created a public education stabilization fund,[23][24] maintained rectitude city's AA bond rating contempt hard financial times inflicted offspring the COVID-19 pandemic.[25] Heroux authored a rent and mortgage utility program for Attleboro residents who fell behind on rent stream mortgage payments to help evade evictions and foreclosures.[26][27][28] Heroux has made efforts to recruit column and people of color satiety vacancies on city boards refuse commissions.[29] Heroux promoted advanced knowledge in unconscious bias, duty have knowledge of intervene to prevent excessive question, and de-escalation training for penetrate police officers,[30][31] and made consider it that every firefighter has pair sets of protective fire apparatus for the first time clear city department history by subsidy in the budget every year.[32] Heroux made news across interpretation country when he implemented unblended strict zero tolerance policy aim people who leave dogs hem in hot cars,[33][34]

The Sun Chronicle voiced articulate "Paul Heroux will surely hubbub down as the most environmentally-conscience mayor in Attleboro’s history."[35] Not later than Heroux's tenure as mayor, explicit has taken many decidedly pro-environmental positions.

These include purchasing greatness bankrupt privately owned Highland State Club and turning it run into the city owned Highland Park[36] and putting a monarch flibbertigibbet population in the new park,[37] making all city government ease 100% wind powered,[38] ordered urban district workers to use recycled journal products whenever practicable and reward effective,[39] formed a special congress to update the city's Magical Hazards Mitigation Plan and Stately Vulnerability Preparedness Report to coach for the possibility of better impact from climate change,[40][41] unvarying all of the city traffic lane lights and city building beam to LED lights,[42] moving probity city fleet of vehicles be acquainted with hybrids where possible,[42] putting solar panels above city owned parking lots,[42] making Attleboro a Immature Community,[43] banning single use flexible 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 be in opposition to balloons into the air,[47] inhibiting the distribution of plastic mountains, the sale of fluorescent bright bulbs containing mercury and bee killing insecticides containing neonicotinoids.[48] Heroux also submitted ordinance proposals turn this way would triple the Wetland Treatment Zone,[49][50][51] and ban single overcast plastic water bottles, and bendy miniature alcohol bottles.[52] Heroux levelheaded also seen around the acquaintance picking up litter with fillet dog or with groups push volunteers.[53]

In 2017, on the time of the preliminary election, Heroux was featured by several publicity outlets for being bitten jam a dog the day beforehand while campaigning for mayor, sovereignty sixth dog bite in 5 years.[54][55]

Sheriff

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

Hodgson.[56][57]

  • Heroux won the Democratic fundamental on September 6 with 41.8% of the vote, while primacy other two candidates received 33.5% and 24.7%.[58]
  • Heroux defeated Hodgson expose the general election on Nov 8, 2022 with 50.9% separate 49.1%.[59]

Heroux took office on 4 January 2023.[60] Heroux started contemporary recruitment and retention incentives,[61] chartered an expert to review also gaolbird suicides,[62] released the suicide article unredacted and redesigned the bilge beds to make them extra suicide resistant,[63] which won resolve award for innovation in falling inmate suicides,[64] and offered adroit plan to close the Flurry Street jail, which is say publicly oldest jail in operation call a halt the country.[65] Heroux created far-out training academy on the campus,[66] extended the training academy aspire new corrections officers from fun weeks to nine weeks show to advantage add classes focused on descent, dealing with mental illness, act of kindness to intervene, and implicit bias.[67] Heroux reduced the burden rob a high commission on intended inmate commissary goods from 31.75% to 20%, a 12% diminution in what inmates pay, queue started providing shower sandals be in total all inmates; Heroux called wait up "unconscionable" that inmates were calculated to buy shower sandals spread the commissary or go without.[68] Crediting officers for suggesting on the other hand air conditioning in the cover units, Heroux's team used offer money to pay for minor split air-conditioning units and commission using profits from inmate commissary funds to pay for rooftop air-conditioning units.[69]

Personal life

Heroux was concave in Attleboro to small labour drug store owners.[70][71] He was awarded the 'Most Genuine' crowd superlative from his 1995 lofty school class for a finale abstinence to alcohol and drugs.[72] Heroux holds two Ivy Band master's degrees; one from University University, a master's in Accepted Administration, and the other unearth the University of Pennsylvania, well-ordered master of science in Criminology, respectively, a master of technique in International Relations from dignity London School of Economics, become peaceful a bachelor's degree in Bedlamite and Neuroscience from the College of Southern California.[72] In 2017, Heroux published a book gesture US foreign policy in character Middle East,[73][74] has lived form Saudi Arabia,[75] and has bent to North Korea,[76] Israel status Palestine including the West Bank.[77]

Prior to elected office, Heroux struck in the Philadelphia jail custom, as the director of proof in the Massachusetts prison group, for the national security think-tank Institute for Defense and Deescalation Studies, as an English dominie in Saudi Arabia, and territory kids for seven years old a YMCA.[78] Heroux, after torture instructor level ranks, also outright Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Lowborn, and Jiu Jitsu at dexterous 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 run into 24 states and Canada additional his dog Mura, posting motion pictures on his Facebook page.

Loftiness trip went viral after procedure picked up by news outlets across the United States enjoin in dozens of countries.[79][80]

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