2024 State House Twenty-Sixth Middlesex District
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is comprised of 160 members, each representing a district of approximately 40,000 people and each elected for a two-year term. As required by the Massachusetts Constitution, the House meets year-round in either formal or informal sessions to consider legislation. The Massachusetts House is led by the Speaker of the House who is elected by the members of the body at the beginning of each two-year legislative session. Base salary for each representative is approximately $66,256.
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Mike Connolly
(Dem)
Do you support election day voter registration? Why or why not?
What actions should the legislature take to address the climate emergency?
What should the legislature do to increase the supply of affordable and middle-market housing in Massachusetts?
What measures would you support to deal with the needs of the large number of immigrants coming to Massachusetts?
What are your priorities for dealing with transportation statewide and in your district?
Campaign Phone
8572361901
Measures
This session I have been a leading proponent of a social housing pilot program, along with gun control laws and continued support for reproductive freedom
Yes.
We've taken significant steps in recent years around wind energy and a fossil fuel-free pilot program, and yet we have to go further. The legislature should accelerate our net zero goals and do more to facilitate clean heat and networked geothermal while phasing out gas and coal as soon as possible.
We in the House recently passed a $6.5 billion housing bond bill, along with numerous pro-housing policy provisions. We've done a lot to reform zoning, including pass ADUs by-right, and yet, more has to be done in terms of public financing of mixed-income housing projects along with broader and deeper public subsidies.
I voted to uphold our Right To Shelter law earlier this year, and I think we can pursue more cost-effective ways of implementing our right to shelter law, rather than walking away from it, in the context this influx of new arrivals.
I've been a longtime advocate for progressive taxation and tax fairness to ensure the MBTA and MassDOT have the funding necessary to offer world-class transportation and transit service. Obviously, we have a long way to go, and yet we've seen great progress with the completion of the Green Line Extension, the community path extension, and a large build-out of local bike facilities on state properties. At the end of the day, I continue to believe we must fund investments in people and upgrades.
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