A former Republican State Senator takes over Tuesday as director of Gov. Charlie Baker’s western Massachusetts office.
Baker said he’s known Mike Knapik since the 1990’s and described him as a “terrific person,” who is nonpartisan and very focused on local government and economic development.
" I believe that having Mike as our leader here in western Massachusetts will be a tremendous asset, not just to the administration but, I believe, to western Mass. and the Commonwealth," said Baker. " We are wildly excited that he agreed to do it."
Knapik resigned from the State Senate in 2013 after more than 2 decades in the legislature and became head of the Westfield State University Foundation. The governor’s office in Springfield provides constituent services in the four western counties.
