1. 1)Work with in collaboration with every resident, regardless of party affiliation
   

2. 2)No special interest money or favors
   

3. 3)No outside political consultant or annoying polling firms
   

Anyone that has been good enough to open their door to me while I go door-to-door knows that I always start my conversations with one question: “If you were king or queen of Massachusetts for a day, what would you change?”

I and my team have been going door-to-door for months.  I am not at your door to pander for your vote or tear down my opponent; I am there to restore to government something that has been lacking for years: good customer service. I am there to ask you what you need and to hear out your best ideas for a better Massachusetts.  I am there to treat you like a fellow citizen, a member of my team.  I am there to have a substantive conversation with you about where you need a hand and strengthen a policy platform that will make your life a little easier.

Employing a model based upon ‘the wisdom of crowds’ works.  Over fifty percent of my policy ideas have come from my conversations with real people - with the engineers, teachers, bankers, business owners, social workers - who have been waiting for someone to simply ask them that question, who have been looking for an opportunity to make their voice heard.  My platform has been tested through thousands of conversations with real working people of all political stripes.  As a result, it’s moderate and actionable. When I’m elected, my policy ideas will have been strengthened through conversations with thousands of people, greatly increasing their strength and likelihood of becoming legislation.  My agenda will be our agenda.

Secondly, special interest influence has ruined this state, has ruined the thinking on Beacon Hill and slowly suffocated the idea of moderate, sound policy.  It has to stop.  When you first announce you’re running for public office, the first people you hear from are the special interest groups.  ‘Pro-business’, ‘pro-labor’, ‘pro-choice’, ‘’pro-life’, etc.; they all send you thick ‘questionnaires’; should you answer the right way, there is the implicit promise of an “endorsement”...which means they’ll send out a piece of mail to all your constituents or make sure that you get money and volunteers.  They’ll make sure you get elected.

This election season, you will not see any expensive mass-mailings from any group supporting me.  I have not sought the endorsement of any political action committee, group or party.  How anyone could claim to be working with and for their district yet still accept support from a monied special interest group runs counter to reason.

Lastly, we don’t need any outside movers and shakers telling us what to think.  If you are reading this, it is evidence that there do exist people who are willing to truly give each of their potential elected officials a look, who are turned off by focus-grouped literature pieces.  I don’t need any slick consultants glossing over my flaws.  I build my own website, I research my own policy, I write my own literature and I rely on your cooperation to build my agenda. 

This election that word “change” is tossed around a lot.   Across the state and the country, we’re frustrated.  In spite of the fact that, yes, I believe we need to make some changes in personnel, I have been adamant in saying that this is not a “change” campaign.  This campaign is about a simple restoration of the practice of simple, effective democracy - literally, that’s me knocking door-to-door today and, later, holding regular, substantive public discussions around key issues.  That idea of democracy is sometimes difficult in practice but it is always ultimately worthwhile and the only path to take if you want to deliver on the needs of real people.