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Stipend Reform for a Better MA Legislature Forum
September 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
A ballot initiative we support to reform the corrupting stipend system in the MA legislature will appear on the November 2026 ballot. Our unique stipend system—by which our elected representatives are beholden to leadership for a significant portion of their pay—cements the stranglehold those leaders maintain on all legislation in the Commonwealth. This dynamic has helped create a major obstacle to accountability and the least effective and transparent legislature in the US. PDM wants MA voters to weigh in on this important reform.
Our panelists will be Jonathan Hecht, a PDM leader who served as Watertown’s State Representative from 2009 to 2020 and Brian Muldoon, an accomplished organizer, who is leading the newly formed Legislative Effectiveness and Accountability Project (LEAP) to support the ballot question. They will explain the significance of stipend reform, the campaign to get the question on the ballot and how you can help. To move the campaign forward, PDM needs your assistance to gather 100,000 signatures supporting the initiative, between September and November of this fall.
Scotia Hille, Executive Director of Act on Mass, will moderate.
