After speaking yesterday to a political science class, former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift met with the Daily to discuss the Bay State's response to the financial crisis.
Swift said she is concerned that the billions in federal stimulus money that will flow into the state will create a dependence that will plague politicians in the future.
"I just am fearful that the appetite we are building for federal funds just isn't sustainable," she told the Daily. "I worry [about] in the long-term how we're going to pay for it all."
Swift, a Republican and the state's only female governor to date, occupied the corner office between 2001 and 2003.
She was on campus for the political science seminar "Topics in American Politics: Politics of Local Government," which is taught by former state Senate President Tom Birmingham.
