Hello,
I am a progressive Democrat from North Cambridge and a first-time candidate for State Representative in the 24th Middlesex, including parts of Arlington and North Cambridge and all of Belmont. I have a lifelong commitment to public service and engagement with key public policy issues. I worked at the EPA prosecuting polluters, at the White House on Hilary Clinton’s Task Force for Healthcare Reform, and for Eva Clayton, the first African-American legislator from the Carolinas since Reconstruction. For the past 15 years, I have been a lawyer here in Massachusetts, at a green technology company, a biotechnology company, and now an international manufacturing company that keeps their main plant and over 600 living wage jobs in the state. I am confident that this diverse experience provides me with a skill set that will allow me to be an effective legislator.
Some of the most progressive voices in Massachusetts politics have endorsed my candidacy – the American Federation of Teachers, the Boston Teachers Union, and 1199 SEIU, who cited my “proven record of standing with working people.” This highlights my commitment to equality for all, and my ability to work on important issues facing the district, such as job creation, economic development, and rising healthcare costs.
I am passionate about the need for economic and social justice, practical about the needs of our community, and progressive in my values. I believe in using cooperation to reach comprehensive and common sense solutions, like closing tax loopholes as one way to fund a long-term fix for the T. Part of serving as a State Representative is using my vote to support the values of the district, even if this sometimes means bucking the party leadership. For instance, I would have voted against casino gambling and the recent three-strikes law. I will never compromise our shared values for the sake of advancement in the legislature.
Thanks for reading, and I ask for your support in the Democratic Primary this Thursday.
– Dave
Discuss
6 Comments . Leave a comment below.When you say “I am for social justice” what in the WORLD does that mean? Progressive taxation? Full day kindergarden? Full funding for the judicial branch? Guarenteed family income? Inquiring minds want more than nice file folder headings.
As my fellow North Cantabridgian, St. Johns parishner and Frank the Barber customer Tip O’Neil once said. How will you help with some pressing local issues:
The North Cambridge Alewife Annex has been in desperate need for more security cameras and light for decades, its also crumbling and could use significant renovations. Both Rep. Paulson and Rep. Brownsberger tried to get funding to fix this but it never went anywhere. What will you do to fix that area? What are your thoughts on proposals to redevelop the Faces complex and Arthur D Little and commercial development along that corridor of Route 2? Do you support banning billboards on Mass Ave and will you work with local leaders to improve commercial zoning to allow more street level retail on the section of Mass Ave between Arlington Center and Porter Square?
I like the website but I suspect all the candidates are social and economic ‘progressives’ on most issues, I need to know who will deliver for these areas, particularly my North Cambridge neighborhood which has been a politically neglected part of that district (though Brownsberger did a great job with communication, less so with economic development which he owns up to) and neglected part of Cambridge for quite sometime.
Was the seat left vacant when it should have been filled or something?
After Will Brownsberger was elected to the State Senate, the seat had been vacant until now.
Dave Rogers self promotion here is unsettling. Maybe we should get Margaret Hegarty’s candidate’s statement posted here so it does not look like Blue Mass Group is endorsing Dave, the corporate lawyer, who is from PA and will continue to work as a corp lawyer, as he said at the Belmont forum, if elected to keep up his standard of living. Let’s be fair here. Margaret’s worked as a prosecutor, and in that State House and sends her kid to the Belmont public schools which she also attended. She has a slew of endorsements. Maybe we should get them posted here. That only seems fair.
I’ll admit I didn’t know much about Dave Rogers until he knocked my door on his campaign trail. We spoke for some time and I was very impressed by his passion for social justice and knowledge of the issues.
Rogers has worked in the White House on Hillary Clinton’s health care task force, and has championed work in the biotech industry as a lawyer. Besides a great professional career, he seemed to genuinely care about my concerns. Frankly, I am worried about electing Hegarty, who has neglected a basic function of democracy – voting.
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