The endorsement of groups and individuals is a time-honored tradition for political campaigns.

However, not all endorsements are created equally. In fact, many endorsements are predicated on taking a very firm position in advance on issues that may later be found to be at odds with the needs of a district. Legislators then find themselves being caught between advancing the agenda of an endorsing organization and the agenda of the people whom they were elected to represent. Unfortunately, too often the people lose.

In some cases, the agendas of endorsing organizations can be quite extreme and, in many cases, stray far from what voters envision an organization's issues of concern would be. Many of the specific issues in these agendas are outside of the mainstream of issues discussed during a campaign and thus hidden from the view of voters prior to an election.

As a candidate, I want to be completely transparent regarding the endorsements I accept and limit the endorsements I seek to those organizations whose agenda I believe is consistent with the issues on which I am campaigning.

To ensure that this is true, for every group whose endorsement I accept, I will post my responses to the candidate questionnaire for that organization. I want voters to be able to evaluate for themselves the value of the endorsement and understand the positions to which I have committed that may be outside of the core issues discussed during the campaign and to ensure that those positions to which I am committing in public during the campaign are the same as those to which I have committed in private to earn an endorsement.

citizens for limited taxation

The first endorsement earned by the campaign comes from the state's premier taxpayer advocacy group, Citizens for Limited Taxation. To read more, click here.

National federation of independent business

The second endorsement earned by the campaign comes from the state's leading small business association, NFIB Massachusetts. To read more, click here.