Only weeks away from Election Day, self-proclaimed “Quincy kid” Tackey Chan, recently sat down with the Sampan to discuss his candidacy for state representative. Sampan: Describe your story and background – who gave you the name Tackey? Chan: [Laughs] People are always curious about my name. It comes from the Chinese name Chan “Duk Gei” 陳德基 – and my parents used the old Wade-Giles phonetics system (T=D; K=G), straight from the Cantonese, and got “Tackey.” My parents immigrated to the […]