IT'S TIME TO SCRUTNIZE CANDIDATES!
Two candidates announce campaigns for 2026 2nd Plymouth District state representative
Longtime Carver Select Board member Sarah Hewins and current Rep. John Gaskey both announced they are running for the 2nd Plymouth District state representative seat in 2026, Thursday, Oct. 23.
The 2nd Plymouth District includes Wareham, Carver and Middleboro and this won’t be the first time the two face off for this seat. In 2024, Hewins ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign against Rep. Gaskey who was the only name on the ballot.
Rep. Gaskey, a Texas native, engineer and 23-year veteran of the Coast Guard, moved to Carver in 2017 where he was elected to the town’s Planning Board.
“I’m a veteran, conservative and a Christian,” Gaskey said. “I’ve got my first year under my belt. I’ve learned a tremendous amount and I am ready to go forward and do some more good.”
Hewins, a Carver resident and longtime democrat, served as the town’s conservation agent for 15 years and did two, five-year terms on Carver’s Planning Board. Currently, Hewins is in her 17th year as a Carver Select Board member.
Her career also includes 10 years as the chair of the seven-town Plymouth/Carver Aquifer Advisory committee and as commissioner for the Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District for five years.
“We need better representation in the state house,” Hewins said. “There’s just a lot of problems that need to be addressed.”
Hewins is hosting a meet-and-greet in Wareham Sunday, Oct. 26 at the Pier View Restaurant, 201 Onset Avenue from 2 to 4 p.m.
Sarah Hewins, left, and John Gaskey, right. File photos
MASS GOP JOHN GASKY gathered uninformed opinions from
those who formed their opinions regarding the MBTA COMMUNITIES
ACT regurgitates IGNORANCE!
MASS GOP JOHN GASKY clearly failed to INFORM HIMSELF of the
history and the judicial decisions that have cost communities wasted
TAXPAYER DOLLARS fighting legal challenges.
ENERGY
MASS GOP JOHN GASKY claims to have an ENGINEERING DEGREE
without indicating the SOURCE or his specialty - REST ASSURED
it is not ENERGY related, nor did he develop CRITICAL THINKING
ABILITIES!
WBUR (one of our local PBS/NPR outlets - you know? The ones that
the ORANGE TURD slashed the funding?) did a thorough and
impressive report about OFFSHORE WIND that's worth reading:
7 numbers that explain offshore
wind's impact in New England
There is additional information below regarding other sources of ENERGY.
It should be noted that based on PER CAPITA
ENERGY CONSUMPTION, the US is an ENERGY
GUZZLER.
CHINA is promoting CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY -
selling SOLAR KITS that include BATTERY
BACKUP that provide reliable energy in areas
that are lacking - ideal for poor communities.
You can look up the statisstics - CHINA is
reducing their consumption of DIRTY ENERGY
and cleaning up their environment.
CHINA'S ECONOMY IS PROSPERING AS A
CONSEQUENCE.
Maybe we should copy success instead of
continuing to oppose it.
Embracing DIRTY ENERGY is not the FUTURE!
MANDATING VACCINATIONS!
This is a PUBLIC HEALTH issue that does not
belong in POLITICS! It is not a RELIGIOUS
ISSUE!
The recent spread of MEASLES along with
hospitalizations and DEATHS should define
the FOLLY of the ANTI-VAXXERS.
DPT is DIPTHERIA, PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING
COUGH) and TETANUS.
Elimination of USAID funding has caused increased diseases in nations where vaccinations were being
administered - including DIPTHERIA. Investing in
disease prevention in other nations is SELF-PROTECTION - preventing those diseases from
being introduced into the US.
Cases of WHOOPING COUGH are currently being
reported in the US as vaccination rates decline.
Easily spread!
It's time to support SCIENCE and not mythology!
MASSACHUSETTS: MASS GOP JOHN GASKY
IGNORANCE IS NOT A SOLUTION!
MASS GOP PATS ITSELF ON THE BACK FOR ELECTING ANOTHER UNOPPOSED GOP
CLOWN....
NEMASKET NEWS OFFERED A SOFTBALL INTERVIEW WITH THIS NEWLY ELECTED
STATE REP. WHOSE IGNORANCE WILL HAUNT THE COMMONWEALTH...
Q: What are your thought on the MBTA Communities law?
A: That should be a local decision when it comes to the zoning. Local Planning Boards and the townsfolk have to vote on setting the zoning. In Carver as well as Middleboro, it's
pretty much an unworkable situation. I've talked to a few people that are okay with it and I've talked to many people that are against it.
Having been on the planning board in Carver and having gone through Town Meeting and
been on zoning committees trying to come up with good policies, it seems that most of
the time the state is saying you're going to do it our way or else and that is one of the
factors that drove me to do this. Just because something works in Boston doesn't mean it's going
to work everywhere else.
MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT WAS PASSED IN 2021 - WHERE WAS
JOHN GASKY?
A surprising history of how a bill became the MBTA
Communities law
When then-Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill in January 2021, much of the focus landed
on a different zoning measure: a lower, simple-majority threshold for towns to adopt some zoning changes. That's in no small part because Baker had been trying to get that
particular measure passed for years. In February 2021, Baker’s housing and economic
development secretary Mike Kennealy called that change “the most significant zoning
reform in decades.”
The zoning requirements — and the grant eligibility rules — had emerged in a late-night,
last-minute compromise between House and Senate lawmakers before the curtain
officially closed on their 2019-2020 legislative session. Before Baker signed it, the
Massachusetts Municipal Association urged the governor to veto the MBTA
Communities language, arguing it would "override local-decision making” and penalize
communities that fail to meet the mandate.
But Baker wasn’t swayed. He told lawmakers that while he didn’t propose the section, he would still sign it into law because it gave his administration “considerable discretion to
determine compliance.”
SJC rules MBTA rezoning law is constitutional, 'enforceable,' if state redoes rollout
Q: With solar energy being a popular renewable energy source in the district, what
are your thoughts on it?
A: My feeling is that we're doing everything wrong. The idea that solar and wind is the be all end all on a grand scale is wrong. I think solar is great on a small scale for a house or
small building but I don't think the government is serious enough about it. The state has
made the decision that this is how it had to be and they're not looking at everything right now. The state is destroying the ecology and ripping down forests in the name of green
energy and saying it's a net positive.
There are cleaner ways to get energy, natural gas is actually quite clean and I know everybody likes to think about the carbon footprint but we're all carbon based. I'm not
anti-clean energy, I just don't like the state putting it's thumb down on the scale saying
this is the only option.
DID JOHN GASKY EVER COMPARE THE BTU & COSTS OF GAS V OIL? APPARENTLY NOT!
LOOK IT UP!
THIS IS SO GROSSLY UNINFORMED, IT NEEDS SERIOUS QUESTIONING ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF JOHN GASKY!
DIDN'T HE EVEN TAKE A CHEMISTRY COURSE?
PART OF HIS MISINFORMED COMMENT IS MAGA LIES....
THIS IS JUST SHEER IGNORANCE BY CHOICE!
GAS = METHANE! IT CONTAMINATES HOMES WITH ADVERSE HEALTH
CONSEQUENCES!
CLEAN? HARDLY!
MAGA MAGGOTS GOT HYSTERICAL AT THE PROSPECT OF REDUCING GAS
APPLIANCES IN HOMES....LOOK UP THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES!
IN ADDITION, FRACKING EMPLOYS TOXIC CHEMICALS THAT ARE PUMPED INTO
DRINKING WATER & HAVE CONTAMINATED DRINKING WATER....LOOK IT UP!
LOOK UP THE WATER CONSUMPTION FROM FRACKING! IT'S STAGGERING!
CHINA IS PROMOTING CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR AND THEIR ECONOMY IS
PROSPERING AS A CONSEQUENCE...CHINA IS PROMOTING CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR
& THEY'RE BUILDING ROADS & CREATING ALLIANCES THAT MATTER!
FINALLY...FOOD FOR THOUGHT....
Q: What are you looking to accomplish/set in motion during your first few months?
A: I really want to start building relationships and working on expanding Republican seats in the house. There's a few things that I hope we can get done especially in regards to
immigration and protecting religious exemptions.
MORE MANURE, BUT IT'S TIME TO THINK!
