Nathaniel Mulcahy
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Nathaniel Mulcahy (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives to represent the 5th Essex District. He lost in the Democratic primary on September 6, 2022.
Elections
2022
See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District
Incumbent Ann-Margaret Ferrante defeated Ashley Sullivan in the general election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D) | 69.0 | 14,971 |
 | Ashley Sullivan (R)  | 30.8 | 6,683 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 34 | ||
| Total votes: 21,688 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District
Incumbent Ann-Margaret Ferrante defeated Nathaniel Mulcahy in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District on September 6, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ann-Margaret Ferrante | 72.5 | 5,258 |
 | Nathaniel Mulcahy | 27.5 | 1,994 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 1 | ||
| Total votes: 7,253 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District
Ashley Sullivan advanced from the Republican primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Essex District on September 6, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ashley Sullivan (Write-in) | 55.4 | 185 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 44.6 | 149 | ||
| Total votes: 334 | |||
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2020
See also: Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District election, 2020
Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District election, 2020 (September 1 Democratic primary)
Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District election, 2020 (September 1 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6
Incumbent Seth Moulton defeated John Paul Moran and Matthew Mixon in the general election for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Seth Moulton (D) | 65.4 | 286,377 |
 | John Paul Moran (R) | 34.4 | 150,695 | |
 | Matthew Mixon (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 605 | ||
| Total votes: 437,677 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6
Incumbent Seth Moulton defeated Jamie Zahlaway Belsito and Angus McQuilken in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6 on September 1, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Seth Moulton | 78.0 | 124,928 |
 | Jamie Zahlaway Belsito | 12.2 | 19,492 | |
 | Angus McQuilken | 9.7 | 15,478 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 268 | ||
| Total votes: 160,166 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lisa Peterson (D)
- Nathaniel Mulcahy (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6
John Paul Moran advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Massachusetts District 6 on September 1, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Paul Moran | 98.9 | 32,564 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 375 | ||
| Total votes: 32,939 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
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2020
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I am a lifelong inventor and have been internationally recognized for my humanitarian and environmental inventions since 1980. I had the honor of teaching k-6 for twelve years before becoming an engineer and scientist. As a teacher I began in the South Bronx in the late Eighties and worked in both public and private schools in urban and rural settings, both as a teacher and administrator, before returning to school for my engineering degrees. In my career as an inventor I've had the privilege of working on projects as varied as the Gillette Venus to locking mechanisms of the Space Shuttle shuttle bay doors. Within engineering, I worked my way up to Director of Research and Development for a large multinational before starting my own humanitarian engineering company, WorldStove, which I've done full time since 2004. In 2010 my company became the first in the world to be certified as carbon negative. I have been involved in the UN Climate Summits since 2008 and have been an advisor to the European Parliament on climate policy and solutions. I was recruited to help forge a strong Green New Deal and provide both short and long term proven actionable plans.
- I am in the unique position that the incumbent I am challenging and all of my opponents are good people. All, in their own way, have done and are doing important things. One is an unquestionable champion of bringing attention to veterans issues, another founded an amazing organization to help address the issues surrounding postpartum and the third has a proven track record of improving gun regulations. These are all key issues and they have my full respect. I am running because the decades of experience I have are in fields that specifically are needed to address the most critical issues being faced by our district, the nation and the planet.
- I had never thought of running for Congress until I was asked if I would this past January. For the past 23 years no occupant of the seat I am seeking has done anything significant with regards to the impending climate crisis, education, healthcare, or immigration reform, all areas I have expertise in. We can no longer wait to address these issues and the consequences of our collective inaction could result in a future that is so dire that I felt had no choice but to agree to run. I see it as my civic duty to use the experience and skills I have developed over four decades to help develop so that those that come after us will not have to pay for the consequences of our inaction
- Our congressional district is one that once shaped the nation and our world. MA6 was refuge to Fredrick Douglass when he escaped slavery. MA6 was where the notion of separation of church and state for our nation was conceived. In MA6 the people of Andover protested and were jailed for opposing new proposals to limit immigration when our nation was barely a decade old. With fish, labor, and ingenuity from Birdseye to Nikola Tesla our MA6 was the catalyst of our nation's economic prosperity. I see no reason why we can not reclaim our voice and shape our nation once again. Certainly, there has never been a time when our collective voices were more needed.
ENVIRONMENT: That we are the only nation who has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement bespeaks an unpardonable indifference to the problems we have caused. Germany still pays reparations for The Holocaust how can we then turn our backs on the destruction we have wreaked? We must come together, as a nation, with bold projects future generations will not have to pay the price for our inaction.
EDUCATION: As someone who taught k-6 for 12 years, I know the value of education for I see how far my former students have gone with their lives. Just two decades ago the USA ranked number one globally in high-school and college education. We now are in 27th place. Until we recognize teachers as the single greatest contributors to our nation's prosperity and happiness we will continue to fall behind those nations that we must compete with in an ever more global marketplace.
HEALTHCARE: Over the last two decades we have fallen from number one in healthcare among industrialized nations to 27th place. With over 30,000 people dying each year because of our current healthcare system and 500,000 families annually reduced to medically caused, why should we not not deserve the healthcare that all other developed nations benefit from?
If this question is limited to political figures, I have always looked up to President Jimmy Carter. During his time in office he started no wars and was never given the due credit he richly deserves for resolving the hostage crisis. Environmentally he lead by example putting the first, ever, solar panels on The White House roof. After leaving office he has used his reputation to time and time again lead by example by helping the most needy and working tirelessly for world peace.
If, however, this question is not limited to political figures I would like to think I am doing my best to follow in the very large steps taken by Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller was a visionary and dared to invent and create with an eye toward the grand scale. His focus was unwaveringly to do all he could for nature and mankind. He dared to dream big and the legacy he left behind was a world with renewed potential for good and sustainability
If, however, this question is not limited to political figures I would like to think I am doing my best to follow in the very large steps taken by Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller was a visionary and dared to invent and create with an eye toward the grand scale. His focus was unwaveringly to do all he could for nature and mankind. He dared to dream big and the legacy he left behind was a world with renewed potential for good and sustainability
Jimmy Carter and Sandro Pertini are two of my political heroes. Both served during roughly the same time period and both embodies that which Pertini declared was the duty of an elected official. Pertini who was Italy's seventh President once said "La moralità dell'uomo politico consiste nell'esercitare il potere che gli è stato affidato al fine di perseguire il bene comune". This roughly translates to "it is the obligation for elected officials to use their power exclusively for the good of the people". The good of the people, not the corporations, not the lobbyists, not other politicians. Both lead a life that by example far more than word embodied this noble aspiration. To me, there is no greater characteristics or principle for an elected official to have.
Be it in my life as a teacher, researcher, inventor, humanitarian, policy writer, industry executive, father and husband, I have always believed that there is no problem that cannot be solved. When, during the horrific 2010 earthquake in Haiti our humanitairan supplied were stolen we built a forge with scraps from the rubble and then made new equipment from whatever scrap we could find. These on the spot inventions were eventually used to feed 3000 refugees per day. When as a teacher i saw students falling behind or not being sufficiently challenged within the mandated curriculum I offered a free after school program fro every-child in the school. In Rwanda I gained such a reputation for always resolving issues I was given the name of 'Umugabo w'igisubizo' which roughly translates to The Solution Man.
I would like to be part of the team that rewrote the Green New Deal and got it passed ushering in an era of bountiful green jobs and an economy that not only respects the planet but everyone on it.
I would like to help elevate the USA to once again being number one in the world for education.
In what seems extraordinarily relevant in these political times, my first historical memory was seeing my parents tape a photo of Spiro Agnew with vertical black construction paper bars on it and then getting into an argument with my aunt and uncle over it. I must have been seven or eight at the time.
Like many who grew up in Western Massachusetts my very first job was at 13 picking cucumbers and tobacco. It was a summer job and taught me respect for all farm workers.
My first degree was in literature and my thesis was on Moby Dick. A few years ago that or the collected poems of Robert Frost would have been my default answers to such a question. Three years ago, however, I miraculously became a papa' of twins and my daily, non work related, reading tends to be less erudite. A few weeks ago our daughter, who's three, brought home from the library a copy of The Pencil by Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula, illustrated by Charlene Chua. The fact that I list the illustrator should be a tip off that this is not what one might consider classic literature. I think it's my current favorite book because it is the first story i have seen have such a profound impact on our daughter. It's a story of an inuit family so poor that half a pencil or even a sheet of paper were considered extravagances. We live frugally but do not want for anything so to see how over night this changed how my daughter viewed the entire world was nothing short of magic. In the end, is that not what great literature should do? For this reason it is my current favorite book.
My fondness for second breakfasts would certainly make being a Hobbit a possible choice but, if I could be anyone well then, give me a Tardis and call me The Doctor!
My musical taste vary from classical to electronic pop but there is no denying my life long love of folk music. My musical hero is Elvis Costello and I am happy to sing (badly) any number of his songs with almost no insistence. THe last song that got stuck in my head was Billy Bragg's version of "Which Side Are You On?". Originally written in 1931 by Florence Reece, I've always loved Pete Seeger's version but when I stumbled across the much more powerful version by Billy Bragg my old punkish roots were awakened and it remained stuck in my head for days.
Having a tidy desk
I find it astounding that we as a society seems to be ok with underpaying teachers when they work 181 days a year, and are required to undergo constant training, onerous certification programs and more for a job that is one of the hardest and most critical to our nation's prosperity. I find it equally bewildering that members of Congress are paid generous salaries even though that work 121 days a year, and who only have the requirements of being 25, a citizen and living in the district they wish to represent. I do believe it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience but not necessarily in politics. I would love to see a one year requirement of having worked for minimum wage. I would love to see requirements of having been part of a labor union. I would love that those tasked with making laws about science or women's health were scientists or medical professionals and women.
I am lucky enough, because of the career choices I have made, I have been fortunate to have worked all over the world. There is no question our nation is still legendary for many who dream of a world where success is based on effort and not who you know or what family or race you were born into. In one small coffee shop in Senegal, faded but in a place of honor hung a framed photo of John F Kennedy. For many that is still the USA, a place of opportunity, growth, progress like space programs and civil rights and an economy that was booming. There is no escaping that, for many, that is not the reality of today and outside the USA our reputation is not the shining beacon it once was. From 1st to 27th place among developing nations for education and healthcare in just 20 years to growing economic disparities and an immigration system that impedes innovation and rewards isolationism our reputation as the land of freedom and opportunity is fading. I want to be part of a congress that fights to restore our global reputation to match that which prompts the coffee shop owner in Senegal to keep a portrait of our president on his shop wall.
On this topic I am torn for I see some who have had long productive careers while other politicians do little more than keep a seat warm, if that. The benefit of term limits is that the odds of defeating a do-nothing incumbent are infinitely small while the risk is losing someone who year after year puts their heart and soul into doing the job. Likewise it would be detrimental to lose the connections forged over time that are so critical in coming to bipartisan agreements. To address this conundrum perhaps the answer is to eliminate lobbyists and donor based campaign finance. Publicly funded elections would level the playing field and allow incumbents to be judged solely on their accomplishments. Do the job and stay, do nothing and get replaced. Having been in a leadership role in industry I can think of no situation other than the house where someone will be allowed to keep their job after doing nothing for two years, or longer.
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Footnotes
Current members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Ronald Mariano
Majority Leader:Michael Moran
Representatives
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Thomas Moakley (D)
1st Barnstable District
Chris Flanagan (D)
1st Berkshire District
John Barrett (D)
1st Bristol District
Michael Chaisson (R)
1st Essex District
Dawne Shand (D)
1st Franklin District
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1st Hampden District
Todd Smola (R)
1st Hampshire District
Lindsay Sabadosa (D)
1st Middlesex District
1st Norfolk District
Bruce Ayers (D)
1st Plymouth District
Michelle Badger (D)
1st Suffolk District
Adrian Madaro (D)
1st Worcester District
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Kip Diggs (D)
2nd Berkshire District
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James Hawkins (D)
2nd Essex District
Kristin Kassner (D)
2nd Franklin District
Susannah Whipps (U)
2nd Hampden District
Brian Ashe (D)
2nd Hampshire District
Homar Gomez (D)
2nd Middlesex District
James Arciero (D)
2nd Norfolk District
Tackey Chan (D)
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John Gaskey (R)
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Daniel Ryan (D)
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Jonathan Zlotnik (D)
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David Vieira (R)
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Leigh Davis (D)
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Lisa Field (D)
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Andy Vargas (D)
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Nicholas Boldyga (R)
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Mindy Domb (D)
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Kate Hogan (D)
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Ronald Mariano (D)
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Joan Meschino (D)
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Aaron Michlewitz (D)
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Steven Howitt (R)
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Estela Reyes (D)
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John Moran (D)
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Mark Sylvia (D)
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Dan Cahill (D)
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Carlos Gonzalez (D)
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Jeffrey Roy (D)
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Michelle DuBois (D)
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John Rogers (D)
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Brandy Oakley (D)
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Antonio Cabral (D)
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Sally Kerans (D)
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Joshua Tarsky (D)
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Adam Scanlon (D)
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Adrianne Ramos (D)
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Michelle Ciccolo (D)
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