Who We Support
When a candidate is running for office who will be a strong defender of economic and environmental justice and grassroots democracy, our membership may decide to make a partisan endorsement. Neighbor to Neighbor members conduct an extensive interviewing process in order to select candidates to endorse. The criteria we use to determine our endorsements are:
- Support of N2N-MA’s mission statement and Statement of Principles
- Strong and clear support for all economic and environmental justice issues
- A measurable progressive difference between the candidates
- Candidate must be winnable, serious, credible, and viable with a commitment to run a grassroots campaign
- Candidate has the potential to run for higher office
Among all endorsed candidates, Neighbor to Neighbor prioritizes the following candidates:
- Active low-income N2N-MA members and/or movement building districts, wards, and precincts
- Women and people of color candidates who plan to run for a higher office
- People running for municipal office in our targeted cities, where the incumbent has a poor economic and environmental justice voting record based on local issues
- People running in target State Representative or Senate movement building districts where the incumbent has an economic and environmental justice voting record lower than 80% on our Legislative Voter Rating
N2N has endorsed the following candidates this election season:
Worcester:
Sarai Rivera for District 4 City Councilor
Joe O’Brien for Mayor
Lynn:
Maria Carrasco for School Committee
Springfield:
Orlando Ramos for Ward 8 City Councilor
Zaida Luna for Ward 1 City Councilor
Jose Tosado for Mayor
Holyoke:
Gladys Lebrón-Martínez for District 1 City Councilor
Boston:
Suzanne Lee for District 2 City Councilor
Ayanna Presley for City Councilor At Large