24 Facts About Richard Tisei

Richard R Tisei is an American politician from Massachusetts.

Richard Tisei was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2010 and the nominee for Congress from Massachusetts's 6th district in 2012 and 2014.

Richard Tisei served in the House until 1990, when he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate.

Richard Tisei was elected Assistant Minority Leader in 1997 and Minority Leader in January 2007.

Richard Tisei did not run for re-election in 2010, instead running for Lieutenant Governor alongside Republican gubernatorial nominee Charlie Baker.

Richard Tisei ran again in 2014 and faced former US Marine Seth Moulton in the general election after Moulton defeated Tierney in the Democratic primary.

Later, Tisei interned at the office of Massachusetts House Minority Leader William G Robinson.

In 1984, Richard Tisei ran for the open 22nd Middlesex district seat of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Richard Tisei was the youngest Republican ever elected to the Massachusetts House.

Richard Tisei decided to retire his seat in the lower chamber to run for that open senate seat.

Richard Tisei won re-election unopposed in 1992,1994,1996,1998,2002,2006, and 2008.

Richard Tisei was named legislator of the Year by the Massachusetts Alliance for the Mentally Ill, The Human Service Providers of Massachusetts and the Home Health Care Association Of Massachusetts.

Richard Tisei is known best for sponsoring the 1993 Welfare Reform Law and the Whistleblower Protection Law.

Richard Tisei sponsored legislation that would limit the amount of campaign funds candidates can rollover from year to year.

Richard Tisei is a fiscal conservative and strongly supported a sales tax holiday.

In 1995, US Senator Arlen Specter encouraged Richard Tisei to run against Democratic US Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts's 7th congressional district.

On July 28,2009, Richard Tisei was named the campaign chair for Charlie Baker's 2010 gubernatorial run.

Baker and Richard Tisei, unopposed in the Republican primary, were defeated in the general election.

In November 2011, Tisei announced his plans to challenge eight-term US Congressman John F Tierney.

Richard Tisei's campaign made a number of payments for a political consultant, campaign aides, a fundraiser, and a digital marketing firm in 2011 from a state campaign fund.

The Richard Tisei campaign has noted that the payments were all made prior to his official declaration of candidacy for Congress and that they were for activities in support of a potential run for state-level office.

Richard Tisei was notably endorsed by Marisa DeFranco, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for United States Senate in the 2012 election.

Richard Tisei was endorsed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund but was soundly beaten by Moulton in the general election, by 149,638 votes to 111,989.

Since 1992, Richard Tisei has been a real estate broker with Northrup Associate Realtors.