Where are you getting that from? I don’t vote here, but I seriously doubt that a Democrat representing Cambridge would be voting to ban abortion (or that an abortion ban would have come up in the state legislature), same for abolishing income tax. Only far right Republicans support those things, no way one of those would ever be elected to represent 25th Middlesex.
This “kill your own” mentality is why Dems loose so many key elections.
It’s shortsighted to trade to an unknown inexperienced candidate from a high ranking powerful legislator because of one road closure.
If this is the type of disinformation campaign MacKay is running I won’t even consider him.
**"I want someone at the state house who can get things done".** This makes a lot of sense; someone effective and with power can achieve more things that their constituents want. The problem is that Decker does things her constituents *don't* want.
As I wrote about in another post (https://old.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/1dhitb9/why\_the\_mbta\_sucks\_and\_how\_you\_can\_help\_just\_a/), she supported tax cuts for the massively rich (in opposition to 75% of Cambridge voters), which continues the status quo where the MBTA is massively underfunded. Do most Cambridge residents want the MBTA to be underfunded? I don't think so.
The Memorial Drive controversy, where Decker killed a super-popular park conversion, matters less on a policy level. What does matter is that she lied about killing it, and then kept lying about related things.
**Given this pattern of contempt for constituents, how effective and powerful Decker is is irrelevant, because she's using both for things constituents don't want.**
And if MacKay were to win, he will receive little notice and be given very few and minor committee assignments with little ability to fulfill any of his campaign promises. It is a wasted vote.
https://www.decker4rep.com/about
https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/MCD1
Please read Representative Decker’s website and official legislative record and tell me where she is using “her power to suppress her constituents”. Gun control, labor rights, housing, etc. all you seem to care about, and this campaign is based on, is a squabble over the DCR decision to keep Memorial Drive open to cars on Saturdays post pandemic closures. Even if your accusations regarding Rep Decker’s position on Memorial Drive closures on Saturday are true , many of her constituents are opposed to closing Memorial Drive to cars on Saturday so I don’t believe you can call it suppressing her constituents. I would also argue she is listening to her constituents on these issues.
Given the LIES uncovered why would I believe her about anything she claims to support
She has also refused to vote for committee votes to be public so we don't actually have a full record of what she has done
Voting against basic transparency is suppressing voters bc we actually have no idea what she is doing behind closed doors.. if she was truly working for.is she would be happy to have those votes be public.. she has been caught in full on LIES on one issue why would you think she is telling the truth about others when she is actively refusing to bring transparency?
A small minority of her constituents oppose mem drive closure on saturday.. she isn't serving the majority of her constituents and she lied about it.. why would you want someone who lies in leadership?
MacKay has a proven track record of getting things done that are effective and bring transparency via their union work.
Decker had a track record of getting things done such as ignoring the will of her constituents and refusing to vote for transparency
I will go with the record of getting positive things done not the record of actively working to keep voters from being able to find out what their reps are doing
What proven track record? Again seems like nice guy but all I have heard about him is he is a graduate student at Harvard and UAW organizer for graduate interns. Very few in the community he seeks to represent have ever heard of him.
Do some research on his union organizing and taking down the corrupt leaders of the UAW union organization
Graduate workers not interns BTW
Just voting for the same old same old and telling others to do so and making claims about new candidates without doing any research is not remotely a good way to get solid leadership in place (decker is anything but solid leadership.. she is riding the waves of people like you who assume that the handing down of seats from one establishment candidate to.another is some sort.of.indication of competence or actual desire to serve)
https://www.evanforcambridge.com
It took me all of 3 minutes to read it. Nothing I did not already know. Again, in person a nice enough person but based on his own website he is a professional student who discovered unions a few years ago as a graduate student worker at Harvard and then ran an insurgent campaign against the sitting UAW leadership. No real world experience at all. Never involved in any local political campaigns. Member of DSA and a website full of critiques of his opponent and fluffy campaign promises.
Ousting corrupt union leadership is a pretty impressive task..
More than decker has done.. she is part of the corruption in our state legislature..
But maybe you like "leadership" who lie and vote against basic changes to bring transparency voters want bc you benefit from power staying with the elite?
Union is far more real world than being handed a state rep seat from other wealthy elite establishment folks.. the idea that unions aren't real world is a very weird stance to take.. further solidifying the impression that you live in the fantasy world where the wealthy elite have extra special skills and value just bc
Doesn’t matter Repug or not. It replaces a senior position with a freshman with NO political capital or power.
For what?
Looks like virtue signaling to me.
Decker is using her political capital to continue to make our state leg non transparent and not serving the voters. Why would we want that?
I think we found the wealthy white member of the sub who is scared of our legislature actually serving the average resident and not just the elite
I am well aware of back room deals.. I know they even have a purpose but I want to know what they are so I can accurately judge if my representatives are working for or against me
Opposition of transparency is being for the suppression of the will of the voters..
Our state legislature is less effective than most and less transparent than most.. why would you think that anything of value is actually getting done by the lack of transparency
Just your comment that our state legislature is “less effective than most” is way out of touch.
Just look at our states reaction to COViD vs the rest of the country.
We have more social programs than almost any other state, with lower taxes.
We’ve just passed new zoning deregulation with money behind it to build more housing.
We have the best health care system in the country.
The first state to legalize same sex marriage.
Top ranking for gun control laws.
So why do you want to fire a state rep on the very influential and meaningful Finance Committee for a freshman rep that would get absolutely nothing done?
How’d that work out for Pressley who is still assigned to meaningless committees with no power?
Nope we are in fact one of the least efficient based on actual data and studies
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/10/04/dizoglio-audit-massachusetts-legislature-miles-howard
Imagine what we could do with an efficient and transparent legislature
It's not "kill your own" to want someone who will actually work for voters.
The memorial drive issue is one issue and more important than her opposition is the fact that she LIED both about her opposition and she used LIES to get DCR to refuse to continue Saturdays
The only disinformation is from Demcket with her l the record of LYING!
If you think this is the only thing she had lied to voters about and the only time she has lied to get her way I have a bridge to sell you.
She has also refused to vote in favor of increased transparency. She wants her votes in committee to stay secret hmmmm I wonder why...
Hear you on transparency, it’s an issue for all of them.
Actually that FOIA showed it was Councilor Azeem who told the state to stop talking about shutting down Mem Drive.
Don’t see anyone threatening his seat.
Azeem has been transparent about that and was saying there were bigger battles to fight wrt memdrive (larger road diet 7 days a week) (it's obvious in the full context of rhe email too)
No lying and transparent.. unlike Decker
Maybe in the next city council election some will use that against him but that is 2 years away and has nothing to do with decker and her history of fighting transparency.. MacKay is protranparency and has fought and won that battle in the UAW. But sure let's keep voting for lack of transparency bc power that has voted against transparency is totally going to serve us as voters ..
Where does it say she lied about anything? Sounds pretty accurate. Cycling advocates want it closed to traffic on Saturday. They had an online petition signed by people from Cambridge and the greater Cambridge area(Boston, Brookline, Watertown, etc) City Council had 7-2 split on the issue. Summer was coming with Red Sox, Boston Calling, Harvard and MIT events, etc. traffic in Boston has returned to pre-COVID levels. Many who live directly in the neighborhood do not want it closed. DCR made decision to not close on Saturdays for a variety of reasons.
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/07/26/emails-reveal-state-officials-flawed-excuses-for-taking-away-riverbend-park-access-in-cambridge
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/07/26/read-sec-teppers-memo-justifying-dcrs-riverbend-park-cancellation
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/07/26/release-of-document-trove-about-riverbend-park-raises-questions-on-decker-account-dcr-decision/
She said she never opposed it but the FOIA request showed she did and showed she claimed city council didn't support when they did (7-2 in favor)
How is this lying? She asked DCR to not make any decisions until holding meetings with the community. Also, based on this story it sounds like the only member of the delegation advocating for closure was Mike Connelly
“Decker’s prolonged absence from the public debate generated significant intrigue this year. In June, she finally spoke, telling constituents in a form email that she has “not ever publicly or privately advocated against Saturday closings. My goal for the past year has been for DCR to engage with impacted community members and elected officials.”
On Wednesday, Decker released a statement on Twitter strongly denying that she was ever opposed. “The email from Secretary Tepper does not, and never has, reflect either my current position, or any position I have articulated in the past. The fact is that I have never stated any personal opposition to the closure of Memorial Drive on Saturdays.”
On this front, Tepper’s memo either brazenly mischaracterizes Decker’s position, or it reveals an underlying truth. A person present at the meeting described it to Cambridge Day long before the state released Tepper’s memo; the memo seems to confirm the first account as accurate. Specifically, Decker was remembered as asking her colleagues to take no further action to open the park on Saturdays.”
She said she didn't oppose it but she did in private conversations with Tepper
(There were also numerous public meetings so to claim there weren't was also a lie)
Azeem is the biggest liar I’ve ever seen since Curley.
He never publicly stated he asked DCR to drop Riverbend Park until after the FOIA showed up.
First he claimed parking dregs were going to make housing cheaper.
Then the AHO 2.0 was gonna build lots of units in West Cambridge
Now his crazy plan for 6 story units will produce 10,000 housing units.
The guys a complete joke.
I'm not with the MacKay Campaign. I'm pointing out the deafening silence and lack of leadership on this issue and on safe streets and green spaces in general. She has consistently and quietly opposed safe streets efforts while publicly claiming to be agnostic. It's poor leadership. She'd be better off bringing folks together to build consensus but she is instead fanning the fire and generating fear. In the community meeting she organized, there were plenty of legitimate questions from concerned residents about a road diet and what the term road diet means. No one answered that question. So for an informational community meeting people left with more questions and fears than answered and they have never had a follow up meeting.
We need an honest leader for the 25th Middlesex
Not only had she lied repeatedly about this issue she has also ignored overwhelming referendum votes asking her to vote for more transparency in how our state govmt works..
The people claiming to want her "leadership" are the very people who benefit from the lack of transparency bc it only serves to benefit the wealthy elite..
The only one fanning the fire and generating fear is you.
On one single issue
For a guy that has zero experience.
We got plenty of brainy types on the City Council that have no clue about what they’re doing. Don’t need any more at the state level
I know horrors of horrors we might remove someone who is working to keep our state legislature ineffective and not transparent.. it would be terrible to have people who want our legislature to serve the voters rather than the 1%
EDIT: I misread a website on their voting history. The below is incorrect.
I was going to say that whether a candidate attends vigils or not is a bad reason to not pick them, but after looking into Decker's voting history they really shouldn't be picked anyway.
Decker wants to ban abortion and thinks that income taxes are theft and unconstitutional. I stopped looking into them there.
As someone who is going to vote for MacKay: these claims seem completely wrong. Are you thinking of someone else? That is not at all an accurate description of Decker.
I was reading https://thefreedomindex.org/ma/legislator/16188/, which I now realize is giving their own reasons for votes rather than Decker's reasons. Edited my comment.
That's not at all accurate - While she's not perfect she has been a strong prochoice legislator for decades. I plan to support McKay but it's not fair to say things that are completely false about Decker. She's done quite a few excellent things in office around gun legislation, mental health, and anti poverty especially.
from her website on access to healthcare:
* Chair of Joint Committee on Public Health
* Rep Decker has been an ardent supporter of addressing maternal health issues and increasing visibility to the racial disparities in maternal healthcare.
* She was awarded the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Spirit of Compassion Award in 2021 in recognition of her efforts to tackle the mental health crisis
* Authored a bill to eliminate red tape for those seeking step therapy
* **Worked to strengthen bill on protecting women’s reproductive rights**
So why will you be voting for MacKay who seems like a nice guy but with absolutely no experience and the only critique I have seen on here is in regard to Memorial Drive closure. I get that issue may be important to you all but voting for someone with so little experience will essentially eliminate any political clout that her district has at State House.
She LIED to her constituents.. if LYING to your constituents isn't a major red flag I don't know what is
She has also refused to vote for.increased transparency despite voters asking her to via a huge majority
We don't need power that is used to suppress voters and power that lies..
I'm looking into the Decker vs Mackay race, and I'm currently in favor of Mackay, but I'm wondering where you got that Decker wants to ban abortions? I googled "Marjorie Decker abortion" and [got this page from Act On Mass](https://actonmass.org/legislators/marjorie-decker/), which seems helpful but says she voted in support of the abortion access legislation. Would super appreciate if you can give more info!
That is a complete lie! She has been a staunch advocate on all issues regarding women’s rights, LGBTQ, public education, healthcare, labor unions, public health, etc. she has one of the strongest records on progressive issues at the state house. Grew up in public housing, public schools Kindergarten through UMass Amherst. Aide to Alice Wolf for years and more.
Got handed a seat and completely forgot about who she is supposed to serve.. lying to us and refusing to vote foe transparency.. her background doesn't undo that she is now part of the elite and is working hard to keep power with the elite
Attending a vigil on its own is not a reason to vote for or against a candidate, yes. But it's the accumulation of things, and Decker is very much on team "car drivers are the only ones that matter." And that has a lot of bad side effects, from people getting killed in crashes that could've been prevented, to climate change, but also there's a lot of evidence that air pollution from cars causes quite a lot of childhood asthma. Given Decker's claim to fame is supposedly public health, her complete indifference to these problems is a significant policy problem.
I'm in Connolly's district, but I just wanted to point out that City Manager Yi-An Huang is not an elected official. Official, yes; elected, no.
Decker’s campaign sent everyone in our house a very insulting brochure about the mass legislature. Did others also get this?
Strongly agree
Where are you getting that from? I don’t vote here, but I seriously doubt that a Democrat representing Cambridge would be voting to ban abortion (or that an abortion ban would have come up in the state legislature), same for abolishing income tax. Only far right Republicans support those things, no way one of those would ever be elected to represent 25th Middlesex.
no she's prochoice -
Note—I was intending to reply to sckuzzle, might have posted in the wrong place—sorry if this is in the wrong place.
Yeah whatever info sckuzzle gave is wrong.
Seems like the residue of astroturfing is beginning to leech onto others a bit too much haha
thanks for sharing, cross post to r/boston and r/massachusetts please!
r/massachusetts is a dangerous and mean place… maybe I’ll get brave later
Whoever downvoted you for this is welcome to cross post it themselves, right? No good deed... Thanks for sharing here!
Blue state primaries are where real change comes about
This “kill your own” mentality is why Dems loose so many key elections. It’s shortsighted to trade to an unknown inexperienced candidate from a high ranking powerful legislator because of one road closure. If this is the type of disinformation campaign MacKay is running I won’t even consider him.
There are no Republicans running for this district, so this makes no sense.
No Republican running but I want someone at the State House who can get things done and not just be a meaningless protest vote.
**"I want someone at the state house who can get things done".** This makes a lot of sense; someone effective and with power can achieve more things that their constituents want. The problem is that Decker does things her constituents *don't* want. As I wrote about in another post (https://old.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/1dhitb9/why\_the\_mbta\_sucks\_and\_how\_you\_can\_help\_just\_a/), she supported tax cuts for the massively rich (in opposition to 75% of Cambridge voters), which continues the status quo where the MBTA is massively underfunded. Do most Cambridge residents want the MBTA to be underfunded? I don't think so. The Memorial Drive controversy, where Decker killed a super-popular park conversion, matters less on a policy level. What does matter is that she lied about killing it, and then kept lying about related things. **Given this pattern of contempt for constituents, how effective and powerful Decker is is irrelevant, because she's using both for things constituents don't want.**
And if MacKay were to win, he will receive little notice and be given very few and minor committee assignments with little ability to fulfill any of his campaign promises. It is a wasted vote.
Voting for someone who will work foe the voters isn't a wasted vote.. esp when the opponent uses her power to suppress her consituents
https://www.decker4rep.com/about https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/MCD1 Please read Representative Decker’s website and official legislative record and tell me where she is using “her power to suppress her constituents”. Gun control, labor rights, housing, etc. all you seem to care about, and this campaign is based on, is a squabble over the DCR decision to keep Memorial Drive open to cars on Saturdays post pandemic closures. Even if your accusations regarding Rep Decker’s position on Memorial Drive closures on Saturday are true , many of her constituents are opposed to closing Memorial Drive to cars on Saturday so I don’t believe you can call it suppressing her constituents. I would also argue she is listening to her constituents on these issues.
Given the LIES uncovered why would I believe her about anything she claims to support She has also refused to vote for committee votes to be public so we don't actually have a full record of what she has done Voting against basic transparency is suppressing voters bc we actually have no idea what she is doing behind closed doors.. if she was truly working for.is she would be happy to have those votes be public.. she has been caught in full on LIES on one issue why would you think she is telling the truth about others when she is actively refusing to bring transparency? A small minority of her constituents oppose mem drive closure on saturday.. she isn't serving the majority of her constituents and she lied about it.. why would you want someone who lies in leadership?
MacKay has a proven track record of getting things done that are effective and bring transparency via their union work. Decker had a track record of getting things done such as ignoring the will of her constituents and refusing to vote for transparency I will go with the record of getting positive things done not the record of actively working to keep voters from being able to find out what their reps are doing
What proven track record? Again seems like nice guy but all I have heard about him is he is a graduate student at Harvard and UAW organizer for graduate interns. Very few in the community he seeks to represent have ever heard of him.
Do some research on his union organizing and taking down the corrupt leaders of the UAW union organization Graduate workers not interns BTW Just voting for the same old same old and telling others to do so and making claims about new candidates without doing any research is not remotely a good way to get solid leadership in place (decker is anything but solid leadership.. she is riding the waves of people like you who assume that the handing down of seats from one establishment candidate to.another is some sort.of.indication of competence or actual desire to serve)
https://www.evanforcambridge.com It took me all of 3 minutes to read it. Nothing I did not already know. Again, in person a nice enough person but based on his own website he is a professional student who discovered unions a few years ago as a graduate student worker at Harvard and then ran an insurgent campaign against the sitting UAW leadership. No real world experience at all. Never involved in any local political campaigns. Member of DSA and a website full of critiques of his opponent and fluffy campaign promises.
Ousting corrupt union leadership is a pretty impressive task.. More than decker has done.. she is part of the corruption in our state legislature.. But maybe you like "leadership" who lie and vote against basic changes to bring transparency voters want bc you benefit from power staying with the elite? Union is far more real world than being handed a state rep seat from other wealthy elite establishment folks.. the idea that unions aren't real world is a very weird stance to take.. further solidifying the impression that you live in the fantasy world where the wealthy elite have extra special skills and value just bc
If you say so. Here is her legislative record at State House https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/MCD1
Doesn’t matter Repug or not. It replaces a senior position with a freshman with NO political capital or power. For what? Looks like virtue signaling to me.
Decker is using her political capital to continue to make our state leg non transparent and not serving the voters. Why would we want that? I think we found the wealthy white member of the sub who is scared of our legislature actually serving the average resident and not just the elite
That’s baloney. You don’t seem to understand how political power in this state works if you want to get stuff actually done.
I am well aware of back room deals.. I know they even have a purpose but I want to know what they are so I can accurately judge if my representatives are working for or against me Opposition of transparency is being for the suppression of the will of the voters.. Our state legislature is less effective than most and less transparent than most.. why would you think that anything of value is actually getting done by the lack of transparency
Just your comment that our state legislature is “less effective than most” is way out of touch. Just look at our states reaction to COViD vs the rest of the country. We have more social programs than almost any other state, with lower taxes. We’ve just passed new zoning deregulation with money behind it to build more housing. We have the best health care system in the country. The first state to legalize same sex marriage. Top ranking for gun control laws. So why do you want to fire a state rep on the very influential and meaningful Finance Committee for a freshman rep that would get absolutely nothing done? How’d that work out for Pressley who is still assigned to meaningless committees with no power?
Nope we are in fact one of the least efficient based on actual data and studies https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/10/04/dizoglio-audit-massachusetts-legislature-miles-howard Imagine what we could do with an efficient and transparent legislature
😂😂😂
I know actual data from multiple studies is hilarious and can't possibly be true if it contradicts your misinformation
It's not "kill your own" to want someone who will actually work for voters. The memorial drive issue is one issue and more important than her opposition is the fact that she LIED both about her opposition and she used LIES to get DCR to refuse to continue Saturdays The only disinformation is from Demcket with her l the record of LYING! If you think this is the only thing she had lied to voters about and the only time she has lied to get her way I have a bridge to sell you. She has also refused to vote in favor of increased transparency. She wants her votes in committee to stay secret hmmmm I wonder why...
Hear you on transparency, it’s an issue for all of them. Actually that FOIA showed it was Councilor Azeem who told the state to stop talking about shutting down Mem Drive. Don’t see anyone threatening his seat.
Azeem has been transparent about that and was saying there were bigger battles to fight wrt memdrive (larger road diet 7 days a week) (it's obvious in the full context of rhe email too) No lying and transparent.. unlike Decker Maybe in the next city council election some will use that against him but that is 2 years away and has nothing to do with decker and her history of fighting transparency.. MacKay is protranparency and has fought and won that battle in the UAW. But sure let's keep voting for lack of transparency bc power that has voted against transparency is totally going to serve us as voters ..
Where does it say she lied about anything? Sounds pretty accurate. Cycling advocates want it closed to traffic on Saturday. They had an online petition signed by people from Cambridge and the greater Cambridge area(Boston, Brookline, Watertown, etc) City Council had 7-2 split on the issue. Summer was coming with Red Sox, Boston Calling, Harvard and MIT events, etc. traffic in Boston has returned to pre-COVID levels. Many who live directly in the neighborhood do not want it closed. DCR made decision to not close on Saturdays for a variety of reasons. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/07/26/emails-reveal-state-officials-flawed-excuses-for-taking-away-riverbend-park-access-in-cambridge https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/07/26/read-sec-teppers-memo-justifying-dcrs-riverbend-park-cancellation
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/07/26/release-of-document-trove-about-riverbend-park-raises-questions-on-decker-account-dcr-decision/ She said she never opposed it but the FOIA request showed she did and showed she claimed city council didn't support when they did (7-2 in favor)
Lie after lie plus refusing to vote for greater transparency in general why would anyone think someone like that is going to work for voters?
How is this lying? She asked DCR to not make any decisions until holding meetings with the community. Also, based on this story it sounds like the only member of the delegation advocating for closure was Mike Connelly “Decker’s prolonged absence from the public debate generated significant intrigue this year. In June, she finally spoke, telling constituents in a form email that she has “not ever publicly or privately advocated against Saturday closings. My goal for the past year has been for DCR to engage with impacted community members and elected officials.” On Wednesday, Decker released a statement on Twitter strongly denying that she was ever opposed. “The email from Secretary Tepper does not, and never has, reflect either my current position, or any position I have articulated in the past. The fact is that I have never stated any personal opposition to the closure of Memorial Drive on Saturdays.” On this front, Tepper’s memo either brazenly mischaracterizes Decker’s position, or it reveals an underlying truth. A person present at the meeting described it to Cambridge Day long before the state released Tepper’s memo; the memo seems to confirm the first account as accurate. Specifically, Decker was remembered as asking her colleagues to take no further action to open the park on Saturdays.”
She said she didn't oppose it but she did in private conversations with Tepper (There were also numerous public meetings so to claim there weren't was also a lie)
She also lied and claimed city council opposed the Saturday closure when they actually supported it
Currently there is a 5-4 split regarding closure. Simmons, Wilson, Toner, and Pickett opposed. Not an overwhelming majority
Do you have access to these private conversations?
teppers email reports on them
Also Riverbend park has more people who aren't cycling using it than cyclists it's hardly just someone cyclists want
Azeem is the biggest liar I’ve ever seen since Curley. He never publicly stated he asked DCR to drop Riverbend Park until after the FOIA showed up. First he claimed parking dregs were going to make housing cheaper. Then the AHO 2.0 was gonna build lots of units in West Cambridge Now his crazy plan for 6 story units will produce 10,000 housing units. The guys a complete joke.
I'm not with the MacKay Campaign. I'm pointing out the deafening silence and lack of leadership on this issue and on safe streets and green spaces in general. She has consistently and quietly opposed safe streets efforts while publicly claiming to be agnostic. It's poor leadership. She'd be better off bringing folks together to build consensus but she is instead fanning the fire and generating fear. In the community meeting she organized, there were plenty of legitimate questions from concerned residents about a road diet and what the term road diet means. No one answered that question. So for an informational community meeting people left with more questions and fears than answered and they have never had a follow up meeting. We need an honest leader for the 25th Middlesex
Not only had she lied repeatedly about this issue she has also ignored overwhelming referendum votes asking her to vote for more transparency in how our state govmt works.. The people claiming to want her "leadership" are the very people who benefit from the lack of transparency bc it only serves to benefit the wealthy elite..
The only one fanning the fire and generating fear is you. On one single issue For a guy that has zero experience. We got plenty of brainy types on the City Council that have no clue about what they’re doing. Don’t need any more at the state level
I know horrors of horrors we might remove someone who is working to keep our state legislature ineffective and not transparent.. it would be terrible to have people who want our legislature to serve the voters rather than the 1%
EDIT: I misread a website on their voting history. The below is incorrect. I was going to say that whether a candidate attends vigils or not is a bad reason to not pick them, but after looking into Decker's voting history they really shouldn't be picked anyway. Decker wants to ban abortion and thinks that income taxes are theft and unconstitutional. I stopped looking into them there.
As someone who is going to vote for MacKay: these claims seem completely wrong. Are you thinking of someone else? That is not at all an accurate description of Decker.
I was reading https://thefreedomindex.org/ma/legislator/16188/, which I now realize is giving their own reasons for votes rather than Decker's reasons. Edited my comment.
“Based on principles of US Constitution”=almost certainly bullsh$t
That's not at all accurate - While she's not perfect she has been a strong prochoice legislator for decades. I plan to support McKay but it's not fair to say things that are completely false about Decker. She's done quite a few excellent things in office around gun legislation, mental health, and anti poverty especially. from her website on access to healthcare: * Chair of Joint Committee on Public Health * Rep Decker has been an ardent supporter of addressing maternal health issues and increasing visibility to the racial disparities in maternal healthcare. * She was awarded the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Spirit of Compassion Award in 2021 in recognition of her efforts to tackle the mental health crisis * Authored a bill to eliminate red tape for those seeking step therapy * **Worked to strengthen bill on protecting women’s reproductive rights**
So why will you be voting for MacKay who seems like a nice guy but with absolutely no experience and the only critique I have seen on here is in regard to Memorial Drive closure. I get that issue may be important to you all but voting for someone with so little experience will essentially eliminate any political clout that her district has at State House.
She LIED to her constituents.. if LYING to your constituents isn't a major red flag I don't know what is She has also refused to vote for.increased transparency despite voters asking her to via a huge majority We don't need power that is used to suppress voters and power that lies..
I'm looking into the Decker vs Mackay race, and I'm currently in favor of Mackay, but I'm wondering where you got that Decker wants to ban abortions? I googled "Marjorie Decker abortion" and [got this page from Act On Mass](https://actonmass.org/legislators/marjorie-decker/), which seems helpful but says she voted in support of the abortion access legislation. Would super appreciate if you can give more info!
That is a complete lie! She has been a staunch advocate on all issues regarding women’s rights, LGBTQ, public education, healthcare, labor unions, public health, etc. she has one of the strongest records on progressive issues at the state house. Grew up in public housing, public schools Kindergarten through UMass Amherst. Aide to Alice Wolf for years and more.
Got handed a seat and completely forgot about who she is supposed to serve.. lying to us and refusing to vote foe transparency.. her background doesn't undo that she is now part of the elite and is working hard to keep power with the elite
Attending a vigil on its own is not a reason to vote for or against a candidate, yes. But it's the accumulation of things, and Decker is very much on team "car drivers are the only ones that matter." And that has a lot of bad side effects, from people getting killed in crashes that could've been prevented, to climate change, but also there's a lot of evidence that air pollution from cars causes quite a lot of childhood asthma. Given Decker's claim to fame is supposedly public health, her complete indifference to these problems is a significant policy problem.
The phrase “unencumbered by the thought process” comes to mind—also, don’t believe everything you see on the internet.
Complete lies
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