State Representative 4th Worcester District
What does this office do?
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates:
Republican
Josh Bowdridge is a Leominster School Committee member whose career has been in public safety and addiction recovery; he chairs an opioid funding committee at a local recovery center. His priorities are funding police, fire and recovery services, and lowering living costs, especially energy bills.
Democratic · Incumbent
Natalie Higgins, a Leominster attorney and former nonprofit director and rape crisis counselor, has served in the Massachusetts House since 2017 and sits on the Ways and Means Committee. Her bills focus on protections for sexual violence survivors and mental health education in public schools.
Records: Government Spending Reduction 11 against, Public Education Quality 6 for, Civil Rights 4 for,
Sources: sec.state.ma.us23