MassEquality offers second round of endorsements

The MassEquality Political Action Committee (PAC) formally announced its second round of endorsements for the 2010 Massachusetts legislative elections on Aug. 10. (Click here to view the first round of endorsements.)

"We have a real opportunity to elect pro-equality legislators to seats now held by anti-equality lawmakers," said Dee Dee Edmondson, chair of the MassEquality PAC. "Nearly half of the seats in the Massachusetts state legislature are in play and it is critical that we elect pro-equality lawmakers to maintain our 151 super-majority in the legislature."

Candidates were selected for endorsement based on a variety of criteria, including the candidate's support for the Transgender Civil Rights Bill.

The following candidates have earned MassEquality's endorsement in the Sept. 14 primary:

- Karen Payne, challenger running for the Sixth Suffolk representative district (Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, and Roslindale)
- Dan Wolf, challenger running for the Cape and Islands state senate seat
- Eileen Donoghue, challenger running for the First Middlesex senate district (Lowell, Westford, Groton, Dunstable, Pepperell, and Tyngsborough)
- Josh Cutler, challenger running for the Sixth Plymouth representative district (Pembroke, Duxbury, Hanson, and Halifax)
- Mark McGonagle, challenger running for the Fourth Suffolk senate seat (South Boston and Dorchester)
- Patrick Gerry, challenger running for the Second Worcester representative district (Ashburnham, Ashby, Gardner, Royalston, Winchendon)
- State Sen. Sal DiDomenico, running for reelection to the Suffolk, Middlesex, and Essex senate district (Cambridge, Everett, and Somerville)

For more information, please visit www.massequality.org.