In his dutiful and forceful concession remarks in November 2014, John Miller, the Republican candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General, gave fair warning: "The fight for impartial, fact based justice from a non-partisan attorney general goes on." Miller, even in defeat, believed – and presumably feared — that the Bay State was still in "desperate need" of an attorney general who would take a "professional, not a political approach" to the office.
Imagine a public health program that reduces the incidences of childhood asthma. Or imagine another one that assigns a home visiting nurse to women pregnant with their first child. Don't stop there. Imagine another program that identifies children under six who are at-risk of abuse and another one that helps the mentally ill out of restrictive institutional settings and into meaningful community housing.
The more cynical among us who suffer from "compassion burnout" may say that there's very little imaginative about the public health programs noted above that have been launched in states like California, New York, New Mexico, Oregon and South Carolina.
