James McMahon

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James McMahon

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Last election

November 8, 2022

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James McMahon (Republican Party) ran for election for Attorney General of Massachusetts. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Elections

2022

See also: Massachusetts Attorney General election, 2022

General election

General election for Attorney General of Massachusetts

Andrea Campbell defeated James McMahon in the general election for Attorney General of Massachusetts on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Campbell (D)	62.9	1,539,624
		James McMahon (R)	37.1	908,608

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,448,232
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts

Andrea Campbell defeated Shannon Liss-Riordan and Quentin Palfrey (Unofficially withdrew) in the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts on September 6, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Campbell	50.0	365,362
		Shannon Liss-Riordan	34.1	248,648
		Quentin Palfrey (Unofficially withdrew)	15.8	115,200
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	831

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 730,041
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts

James McMahon advanced from the Republican primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts on September 6, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James McMahon	99.3	215,283
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	1,542

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 216,825
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2020

State Senate - regular election

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

Incumbent Susan Moran defeated James McMahon in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Moran (D)	56.3	56,962
		James McMahon (R)	43.7	44,201
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	70

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 101,233
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

Incumbent Susan Moran advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on September 1, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Moran	99.5	28,989
		Other/Write-in votes	0.5	157

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 29,146
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

James McMahon advanced from the Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on September 1, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James McMahon	99.4	11,284
		Other/Write-in votes	0.6	70

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 11,354
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State Senate - special election

See also: Massachusetts state legislative special elections, 2020

General election

Special general election for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

Susan Moran defeated James McMahon in the special general election for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on May 19, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Moran (D)	56.2	11,587
		James McMahon (R)	43.7	9,010
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	35

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 20,632
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Democratic primary election

Special Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

Susan Moran defeated John Mahoney Jr., Thomas Moakley, Rebecca Coletta, and Stephen Michael Palmer in the special Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Moran	27.0	8,894
		John Mahoney Jr.	26.2	8,636
		Thomas Moakley	20.6	6,806
		Rebecca Coletta	20.3	6,701
		Stephen Michael Palmer	5.9	1,936

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 32,973
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Jack Stanton (D)

Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District

James McMahon defeated Jesse Brown in the special Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate Plymouth and Barnstable District on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James McMahon	56.1	8,288
		Jesse Brown	43.9	6,495

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,783
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2018

See also: Massachusetts Attorney General election, 2018

General election

General election for Attorney General of Massachusetts

Incumbent Maura Healey defeated James McMahon in the general election for Attorney General of Massachusetts on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Maura Healey (D)	68.1	1,874,209
		James McMahon (R)	29.2	804,832
		Other/Write-in votes	2.7	73,624

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,752,665
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts

Incumbent Maura Healey advanced from the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts on September 4, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Maura Healey	100.0	596,474

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 596,474
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts

James McMahon defeated Dan Shores in the Republican primary for Attorney General of Massachusetts on September 4, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James McMahon	61.1	135,362
	Submit photo	Dan Shores	38.9	86,315

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 221,677
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Campaign website

McMahon's campaign website stated the following:

“	YOUR SAFETY AND THAT OF YOUR FAMILY WILL BE MY FIRST PRIORTY I will protect the security of you and your family, and your property. I will keep you safe from renegade mobs who destroy our cities. I will vigorously prosecute “woke” mobs who harm people and/or property. I will work to abolish Sanctuary Cities since they assist in violating laws. YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WILL BE RESPECTED AND DEFENDED I believe that parents who challenge School Curriculum are not terrorists! I will support your right to speak your grievances to government agencies. I will stand with parents in facing down rogue School Committees. I will not allow your First Amendment Free Speech Rights to be infringed. YOUR RIGHT TO REFUSE MEDICAL MANDATES WILL BE ENFORCED I believe it is your God-given Constitutional Right to reject VAX mandates. I believe you do not need a Religious Exemption to reject any VAX mandates. I will work to strike down forced Medical Mandates issued by the government. I will preserve and protect your right to reject all Medical Mandates. I will sue those who fired you for “violating” any VAX Mandate. I will stand with all VAX-fired union members to get their jobs back. CORRUPTION WILL BE INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED, AND UPROOTED I will investigate corruption at all levels of government in Massachusetts. I will investigate every Election Integrity issue in the Commonwealth. I will prosecute scandals plaguing the State Police and Municipal Police; good officers need to be exonerated, while bad officers need to go to jail! CRIME WILL BE INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED, AND UPROOTED I will be merciless in prosecuting drug traffickers and purveyors of death. I will cooperate with Federal Law Enforcement in defeating the drug trade. I will enforce the Bartley-Fox law against criminals using guns in crimes. YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS WILL NOT BE INFRINGED I can read the Second Amendment, it’s not rocket science, I will uphold it. I know that the answer to a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun. I know that people with gun licenses do not commit gun crimes; it’s a fact. THE OPIOD EPIDEMIC WILL BE ADDRESSED AND RESOLVED I will be proactive in tackling and ending the Opioid Epidemic in this state. I will seek appropriate funding for successful opiate rehabilitation. We will give these unfortunate people their lives back with complete healing. Unlike the current AG, I will not work a political agenda, instead: I will not push a political agenda by filing meritless government lawsuits. I will be a proactive AG in protecting all of your constitutional rights. I will be proactive in preventing our cities from being burned and destroyed. You work hard every day, only to have your tax dollars go to this current Attorney General’s office; and she says, “I know American cities are burning, but that is how forests grow.” She does not care about you or your family! Instead of defunding the police, I will encourage the hiring of more police officers, particularly in troubled neighborhoods; in order to keep those neighborhoods safe, and drive out the criminal elements. I back the Blue! When I take the oath of Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I will state that “I will preserve and defend the Constitutions of the United States of America, and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the laws thereunder.” I intend to do so in that order! As to why I want to be Attorney General, consider the following: Maura Healey has used the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General for her extreme left wing “woke” political agenda, but has ignored the plight of our First Responders who are now being targeted and fired under VAX Mandates. When the pandemic struck in early 2020, these First Responders, nurses, and healthcare workers were our heroes, putting themselves in harms way to help those victims of Covid-19. Now those same heroes of being treated as “zeros”, and are being fired by the government, with no response from Maura Healey. I intend to stand up for the individual rights of our First Responder heroes. I will stand with the police and fire unions for their membership who have been fired because of the VAX Mandates. I will join in with their litigation to keep further members from being fired. And I will initiate lawsuits to help those who have been fired to recover their jobs. I back the Blue! I will stand with parents when they raise legitimate concerns before their School Committee meetings trying to discuss what is being taught to their children. Concerned parents are not domestic terrorists that should be investigated by the federal government. They are American citizens exercising their First Amendment right to question and express grievances to duly elected School Committees who insist on teaching our children Critical Race Theory. All over the nation, and even in Massachusetts, we have District Attorneys who are refusing to prosecute “Quality of Life” crimes. Some District Attorneys have issued whole categories of crimes that they will not prosecute. I intend to make it my job to help municipal police officers who arrest someone for these particular types of crimes, and that District Attorney will not prosecute them, my office will step up and prosecute those crimes on behalf of those police officers. We just cannot refuse to enforce the law and let anarchy rein in our streets. I will keep Massachusetts citizens safe! Since the pandemic, Covid-19 deaths have grabbed the headlines. However, the Commonwealth is still suffering thousands of deaths each year due to opioid addiction. I have a three-prong approach to deal with those matters. In Massachusetts we have laws against selling illegal drugs in a “School Zone”. Why isn’t every area on the streets treated as a “School Zones”? Does this mean that everywhere else is a sanctuary for selling drugs? We need to dry up the source of drugs in Massachusetts. We need to make it brutally difficult for drug dealers and thugs to ply their trade in this state. And we need to give quality rehabilitative care to the opiate addict whereby they are actually healed from their addiction, and thus giving them their lives back. The “wokeness” coming from our political leaders has to end. We are placing more concerned for the perpetrators of crimes than we are the victims of crime. My only agenda for this office will be to enforce individual civil rights and liberties, prosecute criminals, and keep the citizens of the Commonwealth safe.	”
—James McMahon's campaign website (2022)

2020

State Senate - regular election

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State Senate - special election

James McMahon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McMahon's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

A lifelong resident of Cape Cod with more than 30 years of combined legal, law enforcement, and military experience, I’m ready on day one.

I have been a highly successful trial attorney having litigated cases at every level in Massachusetts Court system, as well as the Federal system. My small business in Buzzards Bay employs area residents. Additionally, I have served in law enforcement and the Massachusetts Army National Guard as a Lieutenant in the Military Police early on in my life.  I also have 12 years of corporate management experience.

I’ve been very active in my hometown of Bourne by serving on the Bourne Financial Development Corporation and volunteering for Bourne Babe Ruth Baseball as the Coordinator, Bourne Youth Baseball as a Coach and Tournament Director, and a player-manager in the Baseball Clubs of Cape Cod.

I have been married to Shelley for 27 years and I am the proud father of five, the eldest of whom sadly fell victim to the opioid epidemic in 2008, after sustaining injuries while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

I attended the Massachusetts Military Academy and graduated from the University of Massachusetts. Later I earned my law degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• I’m the only candidate with a plan to revive our economy and put people back to work.
• I am committed to holding the line against higher taxes unlike my opponent who wants to raise them on seniors and businesses.
• I am the only candidate with a plan to help our seniors and veterans.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Not only are people fearing the virus, but they are also fearing the economic catastrophe. Many small business owners are facing bankruptcy while employees are forced onto unemployment. I want our district and state to recover as quickly as possible. That’s why I have developed a plan that can help our state get back on track. Here’s my plan:

1. An immediate 30 day meals tax holiday when restaurants reopen.
2. A one-year moratorium on new regulations on businesses.
3. Reduce the sales tax to 5%.
4. Make several sales tax holiday weekends one each month, starting in June.
5. Repeal the AirBNB tax.
6. Furlough all non-essential state employees for 2 weeks
7. Stop all legislation raising the gas tax, creating carbon taxes, and new tolls.
8. Lift the ban on “Happy Hours”
9. Require Social Security Number verification for all taxpayer funded benefits.
10. Immediately review the list of essential businesses so as to allow businesses to submit a social distancing plan for reopening

I am the only candidate who is forward thinking and I am the only candidate committed to protecting your wallet.

On May 19th, I would be honored to have your vote.

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