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Da Silva is Running for Plymouth County Commissioner

Carlos A. F Da Silva For Plymouth County Commissioner

Carlos is a 2020 Candidate for Plymouth County Commissioner and he is humbly asking you to please consider him for one of your two votes.

If you would like to volunteer and help elect Carlos please contact them at carlosforcommissioner@gmail.com -

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About Carlos:

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Carlos was elected to the Hingham School Committee in 2016 and reelected in 2019. In addition to serving as the Vice Chair, he also serves on the Salary & Negotiations subcommittee, Long Range Planning subcommittee and is the school board's Legislative Liaison. Upon his election, Carlos became the first Brazilian-American elected to public office in the United States. He and his wife are raising two handsome sons who attended Hingham Public Schools.

Carlos is a state auditor with the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, assigned to the South Shore. He is a Union Steward with NAGE-SEIU. Carlos holds a BA in Union Leadership and Administration from the National Labor College and earned an Associates Degree in Labor Management Relations from Quincy College.

Carlos is a longtime leader in his local community as well as in our region and the larger statewide community. The theme always remains the same - service to people, service to the community. Carlos is a Trustee of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in Hingham, a member of the Advisory Board of MassCare / Single Payer, an Executive Board Member of the Plymouth County Democratic League, and continues to be an active member of the Hingham Democratic Town Committee, where he has served as the chairman. In the past, he has also served as chairman of Quincy Ward 2 Democratic City Committee, worked as Chief Contract Negotiator/Business Agent for SEIU-Local 254-AFL-CIO and represented Local 254 as a member of Executive Board of the Greater Boston Labor Council, becoming the first ever Latinx to serve in that capacity, a member of the Quincy Lions Club, a member of the Quincy Zoning Board of Appeals and Past President of the Massachusetts Freemasonry Logia America Lodge in Cambridge.

Not one to forget his roots, Carlos has also proudly served as President of the Board of Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers, a member of the Board of Brazilian Workers Center in Allston, the Brazilian American Association in Framingham, and as President of the Board of Brazilian Total Assistance in Quincy.


About the Plymouth County Commissioners:

Founded in 1685, the County of Plymouth is a regional government encompassing twenty-seven municipalities in southeastern Massachusetts. In addition to the Registry of Deeds offices in Plymouth, Brockton, and Rockland, the County provides regional cooperative purchasing services, municipal dredging, a fire control airplane, parking ticket processing, 4-H programming, an entomologist, regional financial services, courthouses in Brockton, Hingham, and Wareham, and administration of the Plymouth County OPEB Trust (PCOT).


Plymouth County Communities:

Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, Carver, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Lakeville, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, Wareham. West Bridgewater and Whitman.
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