An energetic, visionary, and proven leader, Eric Lesser will partner with our next Governor to make sure she is the most successful in the country. Together, they will work on the biggest issue our state faces: the skyrocketing cost of living. Eric has a plan to fix our broken transportation system, build more housing, create better jobs, protect our environment, and make our state more affordable and equitable.
Eric understands that Massachusetts has so much going for it. But despite our Commonwealth’s considerable advantages, it’s harder and harder to live here. It’s too expensive – housing is out of control, transportation is unreliable, and childcare costs are crushing families. Meanwhile, small pockets of our state boom while entire regions are left behind. Our current situation doesn’t work: it creates skyrocketing prices and gridlock in some places, and vacuums jobs and opportunity from others.
Massachusetts has a proud history of legislating protections for the LGBTQ+ community, but we still have work to do. Eric Lesser will work with our next governor to help LGBTQ+ residents navigate our schools, healthcare systems, and workplaces.
As attacks on the rights of LBGTQ+ people around the country intensify, our state once must again take the lead. As the first state to legalize marriage equality, we must continue to break barriers and ensure that everyone can live free from fear.
When Donald Trump banned transgender people from serving in the military, Eric partnered with GLAAD and wrote an open letter to Governor Baker – signed by 64 of his colleagues in the State House – to publicly announce that transgender service members would continue to serve in the Massachusetts National Guard. The effort quickly succeeded.
Eric co-sponsored the bill that banned “conversion therapy” in Massachusetts, protecting our young people from this dangerous practice.
Eric supports legislation that would provide a non-binary gender designation on birth certificates and drivers licenses in Massachusetts. Any adult, emancipated minor, or parent or guardian of a minor who wishes to do so only has to attest that they or their child are non-binary and wish to make the change on their documentation.
Since 2017, Eric’s Nonprofit Security Grants Program has awarded funding to help cultural and religious institutions protect themselves from rising hate crimes. In 2022, the State Senate unanimously voted to double the program’s funding.