2022 Electoral Achievements
We made history!
On November 8, the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts (PPAF)-endorsed candidates Maura Healey, Kim Driscoll, Andrea Campbell, and Diana Dizoglio won their elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and State Auditor respectively, breaking several barriers for women in Massachusetts government. Healey is the first woman and first openly gay person elected Governor of Massachusetts, Healey and Driscoll are the first two-woman ticket elected to executive statewide office in the country, and Campbell is the first Black woman elected to statewide office in Massachusetts.
The November election results were a win for reproductive rights and health care access in Massachusetts, with proven champions for abortion access and reproductive freedom beating anti-choice candidates up and down the ballot.
As Governor, Maura Healey has pledged to use the power of her office to protect abortion rights and remove barriers to care, including fully enforcing Massachusetts’ protections for abortion provider and for patients that receive abortion care in Massachusetts; implementing a mandate that Massachusetts health insurers cover abortion without cost-sharing; taking steps to make emergency contraception more accessible and affordable over the counter; supporting comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education; and advancing efforts to protect patients, doctors, and staff at reproductive health clinics from violence or harassment.
Andrea Campbell centered reproductive rights in her campaign for Attorney General (AG) with concrete plans to use the AG’s office to safeguard access to abortion, including pledging to create a cross-bureau reproductive justice unit within the AG’s Office to protect abortion providers and funds from out of state consequences, enforce data privacy laws, develop new ways to hold crisis pregnancy centers accountable, and defend our laws from legal challenges that may originate in and out of state.
PPAF’s endorsed candidates for State Senate and House also won major victories, including Senator Becca Rausch beating back a challenge from anti-abortion State Representative Sean Dooley, and several candidates running for open seats winning handily over anti-abortion opponents, including Paul Mark, Adrianne Ramos, Simon Cataldo, Kate Donaghue, and Chris Flanagan.
Congratulations to PPAF’s endorsed candidates on their victories:
Governor-elect Maura Healey
Lieutenant Governor-elect Kim Driscoll
Attorney General-elect Andrea Campbell
Auditor-elect Diana DiZoglio
State Senator-Elect Paul Mark: Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, & Hampshire
State Senator Paul Feeney: Bristol & Norfolk
State Senator Michael Rodrigues: First Bristol and Plymouth
State Senator Marc Pacheco: Third Bristol & Plymouth
State Senator-Elect Pavel Payano: First Essex
State Senator Joan Lovely: Second Essex
State Senator Brendan Crighton: Third Essex
State Senator Barry Finegold: Second Essex & Middlesex
State Senator Edward Kennedy: First Middlesex
State Senator Patricia Jehlen: Second Middlesex
State Senator Michael Barrett: Third Middlesex
State Senator Cindy Friedman: Fourth Middlesex
State Senator Jason Lewis: Fifth Middlesex
State Senator Cynthia Creem: Norfolk & Middlesex
State Senator Becca Rausch: Norfolk, Worcester, & Middlesex
State Senator Karen Spilka: Middlesex & Norfolk
State Senator Lydia Edwards: Third Suffolk
State Senator William Brownsberger: Suffolk & Middlesex
State Senator Michael Moore: Second Worcester
State Senator Julian Cyr: Cape & Islands
State Senator Joanne Comerford: Hampshire, Franklin, & Worcester
State Senator Sal DiDomenico: Middlesex & Suffolk
State Senator James Eldridge: Middlesex & Worcester
State Senator-Elect Jake Oliveira: Hampden, Hampshire, & Worcester
State Senator Adam Gomez: Hampden
State Senator Sue Moran: Plymouth & Barnstable
State Senator John Cronin: Worcester & Middlesex
State Senator Anne Gobi: Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, & Middlesex
State Senator-Elect Robyn Kennedy: First Worcester
State Senator-Elect Liz Miranda: Second Suffolk
State Representative Dylan Fernandes: Barnstable, Dukes, & Nantucket
State Representative-Elect Christopher Flanagan: 1st Barnstable
State Representative Kip Diggs: 2nd Barnstable
State Representative Sarah Peake: 4th Barnstable
State Representative John Barrett: 1st Berkshire
State Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier: 2nd Berkshire
State Representative Smitty Pignatelli: 3rd Berkshire
State Representative James Hawkins: 2nd Bristol
State Representative Carol Doherty: 3rd Bristol
State Representative Patricia Haddad: 5th Bristol
State Representative William Straus: 10th Bristol
State Representative Christopher Hendricks: 11th Bristol
State Representative Antonio Cabral: 13th Bristol
State Representative Adam Scanlon: 14th Bristol
State Representative-Elect Dawne Shand: 1st Essex
State Representative Kristen Kassner: 2nd Essex
State Representative Andy Vargas: 3rd Essex
State Representative-Elect Estela Reyes: 4th Essex
State Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante: 5th Essex
State Representative Jerry Parisella: 6th Essex
State Representative-Elect Manny Cruz: 7th Essex
State Representative-Elect Jenny Armini: 8th Essex
State Representative Daniel Cahill: 10th Essex
State Representative Peter Capano: 11th Essex
State Representative Thomas Walsh: 12th Essex
State Representative Sally Kerans: 13th Essex
State Representative-Elect Adrianne Ramos: 14th Essex
State Representative Ryan Hamilton: 15th Essex
State Representative Frank Moran: 17th Essex
State Representative Tram Nguyen: 18th Essex
State Representative Natalie Blais: 1st Franklin
State Representative Patricia Duffy: 5th Hampden
State Representative-Elect Aaron Saunders: 7th Hampden
State Representative-Elect Shirley Arriaga: 8th Hampden
State Representative Orlando Ramos: 9th Hampden
State Representative Carlos González: 10th Hampden
State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa: 1st Hampshire
State Representative Daniel Carey: 2nd Hampshire
State Representative Mindy Domb: 3rd Hampshire
State Representative Margaret Scarsdale: 1st Middlesex
State Representative James Arciero: 2nd Middlesex
State Representative Kate Hogan: 3rd Middlesex
State Representative Danielle Gregoire: 4th Middlesex
State Representative David Linsky: 5th Middlesex
State Representative-Elect Priscila Sousa: 6th Middlesex
State Representative Jack Patrick Lewis: 7th Middlesex
State Representative-Elect James Arena-DeRosa: 8th Middlesex
State Representative Tom Stanley: 9th Middlesex
State Representative John Lawn: 10th Middlesex
State Representative Kay Khan: 11th Middlesex
State Representative Ruth Balser: 12th Middlesex
State Representative Carmine Gentile: 13th Middlesex
State Representative-Elect Simon Cataldo: 14th Middlesex
State Representative Michelle Ciccolo: 15th Middlesex
State Representative-Elect Rodney Elliott: 16th Middlesex
State Representative Vanna Howard: 17th Middlesex
State Representative Rady Mom: 18th Middlesex
State Representative Ken Gordon: 21st Middlesex
State Representative Sean Garballey: 23rd Middlesex
State Representative David Rogers: 24th Middlesex
State Representative Marjorie Decker: 25th Middlesex
State Representative Mike Connolly: 26th Middlesex
State Representative Erika Uyterhoeven: 27th Middlesex
State Representative Steven Owens: 29th Middlesex
State Representative Richard Haggerty: 30th Middlesex
State Representative Michael Day: 31st Middlesex
State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian: 32nd Middlesex
State Representative Steve Ultrino: 33rd Middlesex
State Representative Christine Barber: 34th Middlesex
State Representative Dan Sena: 37th Middlesex
State Representative Bruce Ayers: 1st Norfolk
State Representative Tackey Chan: 2nd Norfolk
State Representative Ronald Mariano: 3rd Norfolk
State Representative James Murphy: 4th Norfolk
State Representative Mark Cusack: 5th Norfolk
State Representative William Galvin: 6th Norfolk
State Representative William Driscoll: 7th Norfolk
State Representative Ted Philips: 8th Norfolk
State Representative Jeffrey Roy: 10th Norfolk
State Representative Denise Garlick: 13th Norfolk
State Representative Alice Peisch: 14th Norfolk
State Representative Tommy Vitolo: 15th Norfolk
State Representative Joan Meschino: 3rd Plymouth
State Representative Patrick Kearney: 4th Plymouth
State Representative Josh Cutler: 6th Plymouth
State Representative Gerard Cassidy: 9th Plymouth
State Representative Michelle DuBois: 10th Plymouth
State Representative-Elect Rita Mendes: 11th Plymouth
State Representative Kathleen LaNatra: 12th Plymouth
State Representative Adrian Madaro: 1st Suffolk
State Representative Daniel Ryan: 2nd Suffolk
State Representative Aaron Michlewitz: 3rd Suffolk
State Representative-Elect Chris Worrell: 5th Suffolk
State Representative Chynah Tyler: 7th Suffolk
State Representative Jay Livingstone: 8th Suffolk
State Representative Jon Santiago: 9th Suffolk
State Representative Edward Coppinger: 10th Suffolk
State Representative-Elect Judith Garcia: 11th Suffolk
State Representative Brandy Fluker Oakley: 12th Suffolk
State Representative Dan Hunt: 13th Suffolk
State Representative Rob Consalvo: 14th Suffolk
State Representative-Elect Sam Montaño: 15th Suffolk
State Representative Jessica Giannino: 16th Suffolk
State Representative Kevin Honan: 17th Suffolk
State Representative Michael Moran: 18th Suffolk
State Representative Jonathan Zlotnik: 2nd Worcester
State Representative Michael Kushmerek: 3rd Worcester
State Representative Natalie Higgins: 4th Worcester
State Representative Brian Murray: 10th Worcester
State Representative Meghan Kilcoyne: 12th Worcester
State Representative John Mahoney: 13th Worcester
State Representative Jim O'Day: 14th Worcester
State Representative Mary Keefe: 15th Worcester
State Representative Daniel Donahue: 16th Worcester
State Representative David LeBoeuf: 17th Worcester
State Representative-Elect Kate Donaghue: 19th Worcester
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