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Don Berwick brings health care policy, managment experience to Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign 

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/don_berwick_brings_health_care.html 

When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Don Berwick got on a Mattapan bus with former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Jim Aloisi and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, Berwick wasn't shaking hands with voters.

The group, which also included representatives from the T Riders Union and Youth Way, young public transit advocates, took rows of seats facing each other and talked transit policy as the bus drove down Blue Hill Avenue. For nearly two hours, and one bus transfer, they discussed how to promote pedestrian and bike friendly policies, how to avoid forcing low-income residents out of gentrifying areas, how to expand a Youth Pass giving university students cheap access to the MBTA and how to create regional equity in transportation...