“I yearn for us to move forward and have a new generation begin to lead,” said Julian Cyr, Democratic candidate for the Cape & Islands state senate seat.
Cyr, 30, of Truro, served as director of policy and regulatory affairs for environmental health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Previously, under Governor Deval Patrick, he was deputy director for government affairs at the Department of Public Health. He has also interned at the White House, and worked for the Clinton Global Initiative.
“I think a lot of people were surprised,” Cyr said of his decision to run. “But then, ‘That makes a lot of sense,’ is a lot of response I would get.” Having worked in the state bureaucracy, he said he enjoys public policy.
“You have to figure out how the system works to move an issue forward. In public policy, the aim and the goal is to serve people,” he said. “Barney Frank always says this, and I love this; government is the work we choose to do together. And that’s always done through big systems.”
The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Zoologist
Cyr, the oldest of two children, was born and raised in Truro. His parents owned Adrian’s Restaurant in Truro for 28 years, until it closed in 2012. “They were like many of the generation that raised my generation,” he said. “They were really involved in my school.”
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