Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury. Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.
In 1989, after other efforts had failed for 17 years, Mike led a difficult but ultimately successful fight in a then-resistant State Senate for passage of Massachusetts’ first law barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Marking the victory, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts hailed Mike’s “great courage and independence” and “enormous political skill.”