for state's attorney general and warren for those people who do not know you i know you are quite ensconced in this community you're from neighboring watertown and you've been to a lot of belmont town days but for those people who don't know you tell us a little bit about what your what you've been doing what you are doing and why you would be a perfect attorney general well i don't want perfect job but i'm going to try but first of all thank you it's nice to be here this isn't my first as you suggest usually you know i come here many years when i was here and also up when it was in the cush square with my kids and the kids get older and so you know i look at this as an opportunity to serve i obviously represented belmont in the state senate would get that generous school funds when they had the fire worked on the six one seven area code kept on in the six one seven area code amongst other many things that i did but there was a local stuff and i took on the tobacco industry i worked on campaign finance reform rush limbaugh attacked me as an anti smoking nazi it's how i knew i was doing something right  twenty fifteen years ago but you know for the attorney general's office in massachusetts i look at it is an office gone we can have a tremendous impact on the lives of the people of massachusetts in a lot of positive ways this issue of on campus sexual assaults a real problem a woman is more likely to be the victim of sexual soul if she goes to college and if she doesn't i want to make the best schools in the country which i think we havea the safest i want to enhance the consumer protection components that if a woman in belmont pays a painter five thousand dollars and never sees him again she knows she has someone she can call on that will be in that in her corner that's a function that exists today but i don't think it's as well known as it should i want to make to implement smart gun technology on all the guns so that you know we have we cut down on accidental gun incidents and into every hour of every day somewhere in america america a young child this rush to hospital as a result of a gun accident at home so if you're a gentleman matches can have a tremendous impact on a broad array of issues i want to be that leader with that fighter and as we we talk of course the belmont media center is sort of an emerging and c e o of of new and engaging technology you know but there did that a technology also has its drawbacks to one of them course cyber crimes you find yourself i mean as an attorney general there's a lot more involved now with that in this digital age than there ever was before that's going to be a big issue unfortunately it's a growth issue in two thousand and eleven as the last year for which data was available there were eleven hundred eighteen data breaches of affecting massachusetts residents every tensional that the target of such breach of seventy million people was one breach to eleven hundred  seventeen others so we've got a real problem with a lot of scam artists out there and having someone who's there to help senior citizens to help immigrant communities and people forming which is not a second language navigate through some of these issues be helpful my eighty nine year old soon to be ninety year old mother in law doesn't want to answer the phone thought because of these these scam artists could be on phones or could be electronically through through e mails in the like  and hacking into systems the attorney general's office is under martha coakley is now a really nice job in this area where one of the leaders in the country but we've got to be on god we're going to do a better job i frankly thought you know when europe they have a chip in your credit card which is much more difficult to copy and to take advantage of we have the magnetic strip i like to push that the credit card companies to incorporate that that that ship as europe has done because it's safer so there's a lot we can do t prod companies to protect consumers to deal with issues frankly like the opiate scourge you know where we have overdoses at alarming rates it's now the number one cause of accidental death in massachusetts over car accidents is all opiate addiction in over overdoses could provide more substance abuse beds for people and you know that's what i want to do i want to be an aggressive a proactive attorney general that works on behalf of the people of massachusetts as i did for the people belmont and that's that's great war and if people want to find out more about what you are you know you tire platform where can they go what what what it's like yeah we don't have a website yet no ok i'm getting no we do and we're back with town day two thousand and fourteen i'm jeff hanson with me today is charlie shapiro and you are running for first of all money governors council ok which is the citizen board that is the input and fact the only opportunity that folks have to have any input it all into all of the gubernatorial nominations and that includes judges accident review board clerk magistrate so all of the folks ok to write it to ensure social justice this is the citizen board that votes on those not oversee or vote on those an appointment because that makes it is actually a citizen opportunity into that process and when should people be voting well there is no republican running so if you're an independent or a democrat i would ask that you take a look at the vote shapiro dot com website that's mine and the september ninth gubernatorial primary and all of that is actually when it will be decided so tuesday september ninth is the date and and what i would just briefly say i'm a former newton alderman i served on the  and while i did that i'm very proud to have accomplished something called the silver alert which is like the amber alert but for folks with all timers so if somebody goes missing that has all timers or dementia you may have noticed that now there was a public notification program that was something i brought into the city of newton governor patrick noticed that it worked and helped find some folks that were missing and he appointed me to his committee to roll that out across the entire commonwealth and now the silver alert is now something that is law and working all across the commonwealth including here in belmont dot org or com either way my name is charlie shapiro i would very much appreciate your consideration and i'm all about transparency and opening it up so more people can have more of a say and frankly it's exactly like what community television is all about giving everybody the opportunity to watch what's going on be a part of their government be involved and i think that people especially people in government tens of behave better when everybody has the opportunity to to watch what's happening and that's what i'd like to do with the governor's council certainly see that in belmont ok thank you very much lead you back with more 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