Though a friend and supporter of Mitt Romney when the former Massachusetts governor was still politically active, Danny Ainge considers his own world far saner.
“Why people get involved in politics, I don’t know,” the Celtics president of basketball operations said.
And yet here he is, the proud father of a 33-year-old investment banker son who has survived the process long enough to be one of three candidates on the Republican ballot in the Aug. 15 primary for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District. A special general election will follow on Nov. 7 for the seat vacated last month by Jason Chaffetz, an influential conservative during his time in Washington and now a Fox News commentator.