Bill’s Priorities
Mental Health
As a father, husband, and community member, Bill knows the importance that mental health plays in our everyday lives.
We need to create built-in spaces in our schools to allow students to be better informed about their emotional health and well-being.
We need to partner with other states and their licensing boards to expand licensing flexibility so that patients have more flexibility when searching for help.
And we need to remove the stigma and reduce the impact of postpartum depression by improving screening guidelines and accessibility to mental health services.
Childcare
As a father of a six-month-old and a two-year-old, Bill understands the challenges that parents face when it comes to affording and accessing childcare.
Funding and state support of Massachusetts’ Early Education & Care programs need to catch up to our K-12 programs - we can’t have the best primary schools in the country and leave our kids who are 5 years and under behind.
Parents are spending over $17,000 a year on childcare, and the entire state is paying the price.
We need to do better for our kids.
For over a decade, Bill served in former City Councilor Matt O’Malley’s office, as a Chief of Staff and a liaison to West Roxbury and Roslindale. Nobody knows the importance of being a responsive elected official like Bill does.
As the 10th Suffolk’s State Representative, Bill will focus on the maintenance of streamlined and accessible constituent services, just like he did in City Hall.
We’ll also meet people where they are - connecting them with valuable resources at the local, state, and federal level that will help folks address the challenges they’re facing, and may face in the future.
Constituent Services
Housing Affordability & Home Ownership
For the past two years, Bill’s focus as a real estate professional has been on helping low-income and moderate-income families find homes in an increasingly difficult-to-navigate real estate market.
We need to address the rising costs of homes and rents in Boston and the Commonwealth. The Legislature should equip our city with a box full of tools that can be used to address the soaring costs of housing and housing production.
We need to rethink zoning policies, incentivize and subsidize the creation of new developments, and partner with our leaders in the business and development community to get shovels in the ground as soon as possible.
Environment & Climate Policy
While working for Councilor O’Malley during his time as Chair of the Environment, Resiliency, and Parks Committee, Bill worked tirelessly to lower Boston’s greenhouse gas emissions and ensure Boston is using greener and cleaner energy. With Bill’s help, the office was able to deliver on a paperless paystubs option for city employees and passed a local ordinance to protect our wetlands.
Bill wants to ensure that we’re leaving his children - and all children - a healthy and green world to inhabit. There are simple and common sense green initiatives that we can work toward, such as installing solar panels over municipal owned parking lots, that will save us money and help reduce our impact on the environment.
We need to continue the work that the Legislature is doing to transition to clean energy. This includes increasing access to green jobs, especially for communities that have been and will be harmed significantly by climate change.
Cost of Living and Inflation: Reducing the cost of living for residents in the 10th Suffolk District and beyond will always be at the forefront of Bill’s mind when making decisions as a legislator. We can’t continue to ask Boston residents to pay skyrocketing bills without giving them any support.
Access to Reproductive Health Care: Bill believes in the fundamental right to choose. He supports the actions the Massachusetts legislature took last session to expand accessibility and protections to reproductive health and gender-affirming care for Massachusetts residents and residents from other states seeking care here. He looks forward to continuing the work to protect access to critically important care when elected.
While in Councilor O’Malley’s office, Bill worked to expand access to menstrual products in Boston Public Schools. As a State Representative, Bill will work tirelessly to create and maintain a world that his daughters and all women can live in equitably.
Seniors & Elder Affairs: For too long, seniors in the 10th Suffolk have gone without a full time senior center. As your State Representative, Bill will partner with stakeholders to work toward a full-time senior center that can serve the district and provide reliable and centralized senior programming.
Transportation: Once in office, Bill will sign on to Boston’s Home Rule Petition for MBTA Commuter Rail fare equity (HD.1303/SD.1242). This legislation will include all of Boston’s neighborhoods - including West Roxbury and Roslindale - to Zone 1A, which will change the price of a single ride on the train from $6.50 or $7 down to $2.40.
Nursing: Bill’s wife, Lisa, is a nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Bill knows that Lisa and her colleagues across the Commonwealth sacrifice their time, mental health, and sometimes safety to serve our communities (and did so long before the pandemic). Bill supports creating safe patient to nurse ratio guidelines as the legislative level, and will support efforts to expand the health care worker repayment program that Gov. Baker introduced during his final months in office.
Labor: Bill grew up in a family of union workers. His father was a union worker, and his brother is currently a member of the Brookline Fire Fighters Local 950. Bill supports the rights of workers to organize in their workplace.
