After months of speculation, businessman Michael Minogue entered the growing Republican field to challenge Governor Maura Healey next year, he said in a campaign video message Wednesday.

“Working people — the ones building our communities, teaching our kids, paying the bills — have been left behind, and many are leaving. Our current one-party system isn’t working,” Minogue said. “I’m running to be a new kind of governor. One with the faith, the heart, and the grit to serve for Massachusetts.”

In the video, Minogue describes his military service in Desert Storm and his nearly two decades leading Danvers-based medical device company Abiomed as CEO until 2023. Born to an Irish Catholic family, Minogue received an engineering degree from West Point in 1989 and started his career in the med

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