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Progressive Massachusetts
Michael Bakshi November 9 2019·
PANEL: Changing the Culture of the State House
Progressive Massachusetts' first panel included a quartet of bold, progressive first-year legislators whom they endorsed last year. What have they learned from their first (almost) year? What's in store at the State House? How can we shake things up and make Massachusetts a leader again?
Featuring:... See More — with Tami Gouveia, Lindsay Sabadosa, Nika Elugardo and Becca Rausch at Congregational Church of Needham UCC.
Progressive Lab
June 2019, a network of Democratic activists are building a coalition to recruit like-minded candidates to run for local, state and federal office and change what they call the “broken culture” on Beacon Hill.
Progressive Lab aims to assemble a roster of progressive candidates at the local level, and they plan to target key players in the legislature, too. The activists say they are frustrated with the way some planks of the state Democratic Party platform are handled. They are pushing for more action on issues including education funding, immigration reform, abortion access and transparency in the legislative process.
“We’re very angry at the way politics are being done on Beacon HIll, and are actively recruiting and mentoring primary candidates for legislators that are within House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s inner circle,” Progressive Lab member Michael Bakshi wrote in the Progressive Lab Facebook group, according to a screenshot shared with POLITICO. The group is also advising Ihssane Leckey, a Democratic socialist who is running against Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Bakshi wrote.
Progressive Lab includes volunteers from the 2018 campaigns of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins and state Rep. Nika Elugardo, among others. Some members of the Progressive Lab group belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, and others are from Our Revolution - Massachusetts, the spinoff group from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run.
DSA Boston Public Facebook Group
Members of Boston Democratic Socialists of America Public Facebook Group, in June 17 2019 included Nika Elugardo.[1]