I’ll write in either Howie or DJ.
Good call on Ed King - we really was the last good gov - and he was a Dem.
After he left office he switched to the GOP.
He and the 1990 dem nominee John Silber were well to the right of any of the 4 Republican Governors recently elected or Kerry Healy or Baker.
Maybe one of you knows if 1986 nominee George Kariotis or 1982 nominee John Winthrop Sears were decent Republicans. If so they were the last ones nominated.
I think Steven Pierce who opposed Weld in 1990 primary and then went on to lose the special election for the congressional seat of deceased ultra-liberal RINO Silvio Conte was the last decent Republican to even run.