Ben Downing used to be my State Senator. He's good, so I'll tentatively endorse him.
There is some opposition to Baker forming that wasn't there before, between his COVID response and some of his more right-wing positions showing through. As of now he's still heavily favored, though.
Could you elaborate on this?
Demanding teachers go into school in person while simultaneously bumping teachers down on the vaccine priority list, trying to expand charter schools in a back door way after Massachusetts voted 2:1 against charter schools.
The vaccination rollout in general has been a disaster for him. I go to uni in Mass but live in CT and the difference between the two states rollout is enormous. Anecdotal, but both my 75 year old grandparents in CT have been vaccinated for a month, meanwhile my roommates grandparents, who are over 80, are still on a waitlist. My mother, a teacher, is scheduled to be vaccinated by the end of the month, meanwhile Massachusetts teachers are completely in the dark. For a state that is home to some of the best and most important research and health institutions in the world, the ball has really been dropped with this and if things don't improve soon, Baker's gonna have a huge problem next election.
