A crowd filled the auditorium at the main library Wednesday night to talk with Lt. Governor Tim Murray.
Asked if the state would again have a sales tax holiday in late August, he made no commitment.
“We’re open to it,” Murray said. “We want to have a conversation about it, but we have to look hard at the numbers.”
He did commit to supporting Plymouth’s 400th anniversary in 2020.
“It will be a huge part of our travel and tourism budget,” Murray said. “Being the son of a history teacher, I think about these things. We will commit to make it something special for Massachusetts.”
Anti-nuclear activist Mary Lampert told Murray the security at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is “unacceptably weak.”
“We have to fully understand what happened in Japan,” Murray said. “I can assure you, we’re on top of it. We’re not supportive of any relicensing until we understand what happened.”
Asked about clean energy, Murray said, “We’ve added jobs in that sector.” He then referred to the state’s new Commissioner of the Department of Energy Resources, former Plymouth Town Manager Mark Silvia.
“We’re ranked second only to California in efficiency and clean energy,” Silvia said. “We won’t stop here.”
