On Beacon Hill in Boston, a combination of single-party rule, multi-decade incumbents, and a general complacency about keeping the public properly informed has resulted in many residents being unaware of government decisions and actions. As a first step to resolving this, if elected Sean would setup regular in-person sessions in Waltham for constituents to hear updates and provide input on upcoming legislative bills.

In an official capacity, Sean would look to pass legislation that updates Massachusetts open meeting laws for the digital age and monitor compliance and enforcement of laws that require local government entities to create and maintain mobile-responsive websites that meet accessibility best practices.

As a personal request to anyone with limited visibility or other accessibility concerns, if you find anything about this website that doesn’t meet accessibility best practices please use the contact form to let Sean know!

In many parts of Waltham, a city of over 60,000 residents, many high traffic and neighborhood streets are not lined with ADA compliant sidewalks. Where sidewalks do exist, they are often made of crumbling asphalt, missing appropriate curb cuts, or blocked by utility double poles and other obstructions that force even able-bodied pedestrians into lanes of traffic.

From personal experience moving into a property that was missing any sidewalk for many years, Sean also understands that many residential property owners in the more suburban parts of the city are not in control of the right-of-way where sidewalks belong. As such, Sean would also look into legislative options to prevent municipal officials from enforcing violations, fees, and other costs upon residential property owners where the municipality has failed to properly construct or maintain ADA compliant curbs and sidewalks in the right of way.

Sean’s approach to addressing affordable housing emphasizes reducing minimum parking requirements to lower construction costs and increase flexibility for architects, property developers, and urban planners. It also aims to increase flexibility for unrelated tenants and maximize the use of our existing housing.

Importantly, it excludes ineffective policies that fail to address the root causes of housing affordability issues or result in unintended consequences. Instead, by focusing our energy on implementing more effective strategies, we can move toward a more building a more inclusive and affordable community.

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If you have innovative ideas to improve housing affordability, I welcome your input and look forward to working together to make Waltham more accessible for everyone.

From generative AI to the attention consuming ad-based business model of most social media companies, society is at an inflection point that may prove to be even more impactful than the Industrial Revolution. While Sean does not have specific technical policies to propose at this point about how to govern the advance of technology, he recognizes that Massachusetts is well-positioned to lead the conversation about rethinking what technological progress looks like with local tech and biomedical industry hubs and world renowned universities.

It is time to change the incentives that have prompted Silicon Valley tech companies to implement psychologically manipulative and addictive designs that increase the frequency your phone buzzes, maximize the amount of wasted time scrolling in your social media feed, and negligently reinforce body image issues and social anxieties in our children (and frankly users of any age) — all while inducing a society-wide Stockholm Syndrome-esque relationship.

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With degrees in physics and climate change science, as well as over a dozen years working in renewable energy and utility companies, Sean is extremely familiar with these topics and would take all necessary legislative measures to ensure a smooth transition to a carbon-free utility grid and pollution-free transportation and heating.

Over the past decade, Massachusetts has passed several laws that promote a cleaner utility grid without properly accounting for the cost to utility rate payers. As AI-driven data centers pile on top of EVs and heat pumps in the race for grid capacity, it is time to revisit safe nuclear power, fix utility connection queue rules, simplify renewable energy incentive programs, and encourage local manufacturing of key energy and utility equipment that are not subject to the whims of each federal administration or international trade.

It is very likely that during the next legislative session the Federal Government whether judicially, legislatively, or via executive order may attempt to impose new nationwide restrictions on reproductive agency. Massachusetts needs to be proactive in defense of and prepared to move swiftly to avoid undue interference in the reproductive agency of its residents, including appropriate protections for families, communities, medical staff, and relevant supply chains.

While some look at reproductive agency purely as a “pro-life” or “pro-choice” issue (or about who can play on which sports team), as recent actions by other state governments have shown, it is so much more than that. The same experts, medication, and procedures that are used as contraceptives and to perform abortions are also necessary for safe sex, healthy pregnancies, and saving lives. If elected, Sean would work with other legislators and state agencies to safeguard reproductive agency for everyone in Massachusetts.

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