STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The people of Massachusetts deserve a legislature that is effective, professional, accountable, transparent, diverse, and responsive to the will of the people. We are committed to raising awareness of the barriers interfering with the legislature’s effectiveness and to promoting reforms that will optimize legislative performance.
In 2021 the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts convened a Legislative Reform Working Group and issued a report titled The Massachusetts Legislature: Democracy in Decline, which detailed the current state of dysfunction and explained the causes. The Legislative Reform Working Group and this report were the genesis of the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature.
WHO WE ARE
We are a coalition of Massachusetts residents committed to reforming our state legislature.
Coalition Steering Committee
Mary Z. Connaughton, Framingham
Jordan Berg Powers, Worcester
Former executive director of Mass Alliance
Peter Enrich, Chilmark
Prof. Emeritus, Northeastern U. School of Law;
Chair, Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts
Jonathan Hecht, Watertown
Former Massachusetts State Representative
Scotia Hille, Cambridge
Executive Director, Act on Mass
Jennifer Nassour, Wellesley
Former Chairman of the MassGOP, current finance chair of the MassGOP;
Founder of the PocketbookProject;
Host of Political Contessa and Founder of ThreeGStrategies
Jay Kaufman, Lexington
Former Massachusetts State Representative;
Founder and president, Beacon Leadership Collaborative
Jeanne Kempthorne, Pittsfield
Former member, State Ethics Commission;
Former vice-chair, Common Cause Massachusetts;
Former federal and state prosecutor and defense lawyer
To reach out to the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature’s Steering Committee, please email info@malegreform.org.