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Solomon Goldstein-Rose

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Solomon Goldstein-Rose
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Independent

Prior offices
Massachusetts House of Representatives 3rd Hampshire District
Successor: Mindy Domb
Elections and appointments
Last election

November 6, 2018

Contact

Personal website

Solomon Goldstein-Rose (independent) was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 3rd Hampshire District. Goldstein-Rose assumed office in 2017. Goldstein-Rose left office on January 2, 2019.

Goldstein-Rose (independent) ran for re-election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives to represent the 3rd Hampshire District. Goldstein-Rose lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.

On February 20, 2018, Goldstein-Rose changed his partisan affiliation from Democratic to unenrolled. In explaining this change, he said, "I have always believed good policy should not be defined by political party, and I don’t want to be defined in that way either. This is one way I can embody how I always want to work in the political world, and be as inclusive as possible when I reach out to people of all political backgrounds to gather support for bold policy proposals."[1]

Committee assignments

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Massachusetts committee assignments, 2017
• Personnel and Administration
• Higher Education Joint
• Housing Joint
• Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Joint

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

Elections

2018

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 3rd Hampshire District

Mindy Domb defeated incumbent Solomon Goldstein-Rose in the general election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 3rd Hampshire District on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
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Mindy Domb (D)
 
75.0
 
9,375
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Solomon Goldstein-Rose (Independent)
 
24.8
 
3,098
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
30

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 12,503
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 3rd Hampshire District

Mindy Domb defeated Eric Nakajima in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 3rd Hampshire District on September 4, 2018.

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62.5
 
3,759
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Eric Nakajima
 
37.5
 
2,254

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 6,013
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2016

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 8, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016. Incumbent Ellen Story (D) did not seek re-election.

Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose ran unopposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Third Hampshire District general election.[2][3]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Third Hampshire District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose  (unopposed)
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


The following candidates ran in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Third Hampshire District Democratic Primary.[4][5]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Third Hampshire District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose 34.21% 1,788
     Democratic Eric T. Nakajima 23.13% 1,209
     Democratic Sarah C. LaCour 18.62% 973
     Democratic Viraphanh Douangmany Cage 13.26% 693
     Democratic Bonnie MacCracken 7.10% 371
     Democratic Lawrence E. O'Brien 3.67% 192
Total Votes 5,226


Campaign themes

2016

Goldstein-Rose's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Clean Energy and Economic Development

  • Climate Change is the most urgent issue of our time, and one that as a Millennial I am particularly passionate about. We need to be serious about its effects and work on bold solutions to solve them. We should be taking the full costs of fossil fuels into account by putting a price on carbon pollution in MA and investing the revenue into our residents and businesses to create jobs, rather than sending it out of state to buy oil and gas.

Education

  • Our schools should be our most glorious institutions. Children should enjoy going to school each day, and should care about learning. All students should be able to succeed, regardless of their background. Education is the key to long-term elimination of racial and class inequalities, violence, and economic problems.
  • To begin to meet these goals, we need better funding for public schools and we need to empower teachers far more. In the short term, I will fight for more Chapter 70 funding for our schools and work to create a statewide requirement for training in diversity, social justice, and inclusion that focuses on experienced educators mentoring new teachers. I am also proposing a short-term step of moving MCAS to the beginning of the year - use MCAS as a pre-test (measuring what students actually remembered over the summer) and give teachers information that can guide how they teach each student throughout the year, but don't use it for high-stakes decisions about students or teachers.

Government and Politics

  • Government is the foundation of our society – not some “other” thing. When people see it as “other,” as more and more seem to these days, they get fed up not just with the failings of current government policies, but with the idea of government as a whole. This leads people to be less engaged with politics, in turn causing worse outcomes in government and making people more frustrated.
  • We need to reverse this trend with a wave of new leaders in politics. Not so long ago in America, political party affiliation was only one part of who a politician was and didn’t prevent them from discussing ideas reasonably with all their colleagues. Parties were about engaging and empowering people, rather than raising and spending unseemly amounts of money every election. We can get back to that; but we also shouldn’t talk ourselves into believing it used to be great – American politics has had struggles since the beginning, and we need to move forward. We need a new generation of leaders who are idealistic, respectful, and dedicated.

Opioid Addiction

  • Until recently, lawmakers were focusing very little on the opioid epidemic that has become one of the urgent social problems in New England – in Massachusetts in 2014, over 1,100 people died from opioid overdoses. A matter of public health, crime, mental health, and social justice, we need to address this crisis immediately. Putting in place better checks to ensure addictive painkiller medications are only being prescribed for and used by those who legitimately need them – while not making it too hard for doctors to prescribe what medical patients do actually need – and educating people about how to use and dispose of painkillers without becoming addicted are good first steps.

Racial Justice

  • America, including Massachusetts, is still formed and shaped by racism in many apparent and hidden ways. Most MA residents want to do our best to combat institutional and overt racism, and we need to do this through government as well as by waking our personal consciousness. I suggest several areas in which the MA legislature should be taking immediate steps: first, in public education – we should make sure that diversity and social justice training is included in all teacher training programs and/or orientations so that teachers who hadn’t thought about subconscious racism can become aware of and avoid it, and teachers who are aware can learn techniques for making classrooms inclusive to students of all races, minds, and bodies.[6]
 ”
—Solomon Goldstein-Rose[7]

Campaign finance summary

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Solomon Goldstein-Rose campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2016Massachusetts House of Representatives, District Third HampshireWon $30,395 N/A**
Grand total$30,395 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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2018

In 2018, the Massachusetts General Court was in formal session from January 3 to July 31. The legislature was in informal session from August 1 to December 31.

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Legislators are scored on their sponsorship of legislation related to animal issues.
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Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.


2017




See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Amherst Bulletin, "State Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose leaves Democratic Party," February 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
  3. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016
  6. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  7. ↑ Solomon for Rep, "Issues," accessed September 6, 2016
Political offices
Preceded by
- 		Massachusetts House of Representatives Hampshire 3
2017–2019 		Succeeded by
Mindy Domb (D)


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