“I have the right skills with the right background and the right resume,” said Anthony Schiavi, Republican candidate for the Cape & Islands state senate seat. Schiavi, 55, of Harwich, is a retired Brigadier General who served in both the Air Force and Air National Guard. He is the former executive director of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, which is now called Joint Base Cape Cod. After retiring from the Air National Guard, he served as town manager for the town of Ashland. “I knew I wanted to serve in elective office,” said Schiavi of his decision to run. “After 33 years of public service, and seeing in each step how I was able to influence more constituents in a positive way,” Schiavi said he sees the senate seat as a way to help even more people. Schiavi said he has worked closely with legislators, both at the military base and as town manager of Ashland, and he understands the process of government. “I’ve worked with everybody and anybody to implement change,” he said.   The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Police Officer Schiavi, the middle of three children, was born in Framingham and grew up in Holliston. His father was a Navy veteran who served in Korea and then worked for a family dairy farm in Holliston. His mother worked as an office manager for a number of beer distributors, he said. As a teenager, Schiavi worked on the same family dairy farm as his father. “I lived about two miles away,” he said. “It’s a hard life. I spent a lot of time there. I learned to drive and operate machinery.” When he was young, Schiavi dreamed of being a police officer, “specifically a state trooper,” he said. “It was something that always interested me.” His father, who … Continue reading Anthony Schiavi, Republican Candidate for State Senate