Priorities · the first term
What Jack does with the seat once he wins it.
Cape Cod is facing multiple crises. Here's how he will fight to solve them.
01
Housing people can actually afford year round.
The Upper Cape is losing the families who staff its schools, hospitals, and restaurants. A starter home is out of reach and year-round rentals keep converting to seasonal.
Towns here are being asked to solve a statewide problem out of their own property tax base. That is the part Beacon Hill can change.
What he will push for
- State funding for the water, sewer, and road capacity that new year-round housing depends on, so towns are not left to carry it alone.
- Change 40B to increase the number of affordable units, so we create more affordable housing, not resort condos.
- Deed-restricted year-round units in new development, not another round of seasonal conversions.
He has done it before
Passed Falmouth's 10% residential tax exemption — about $400 a year back to the average year-round household — and serves on the Falmouth Housing Authority.
Passed a tax exemption program where Falmouth residents can rent out rooms to year-round workers earning up to 200% of area median income in exchange for property tax relief.
Voted in support of awarding more than $2 million from the Falmouth Affordable Housing Fund to affordable housing projects.
02
Clean water and a coastline that survives the next fifty years.
Nitrogen is choking our estuaries. PFAS has turned up in drinking water across the Cape. Every town is staring at wastewater costs it cannot carry by itself.
Water quality on the Upper Cape is an economic question as much as an environmental one — it is the shellfish, the tourism, and the property values all at once.
What he will push for
- State dollars for sewering and water treatment, so the bill does not land on local property taxes.
- PFAS testing and remediation funding for every public water supply in the district.
- Permanent conservation of the remaining open land in our watersheds while it is still available to buy.
He has done it before
Placed the Long Pond watershed into permanent conservation — not a moratorium — and worked earmarks for local water systems as district director.
03
Reproductive freedom, defended without an asterisk.
Decisions about pregnancy belong to a patient and her doctor, not to politicians. Massachusetts law protects that today. Washington is working to make that protection harder to keep.
A district that believes this deserves a representative whose vote is never in question.
What he will push for
- Defend the state law protecting abortion access and contraception, against any attempt to narrow it.
- Keep shield protections in place for patients and providers who come here for care.
- Make sure the care is available in practice on the Cape, not just legal on paper.
04
The bridges, and the infrastructure the whole Cape depends on.
The Bourne and Sagamore bridges are past their service life. The replacement project will define traffic, jobs, and emergency access on the Upper Cape for a generation.
This district needs someone in the room who already knows how the money moves.
What he will push for
- Hold the state to its share of the bridge replacement and keep the construction timeline honest.
- Local hire and union PLA-approved contracts on the project, so the jobs land in the towns absorbing the disruption.
- Emergency access and evacuation planning written before the lanes close, not after.
- Direct local aid to Bourne and the business owners who will be affected by the construction and traffic.
He has done it before
Point person on more than $36 million in earmarks for local roads, water systems, and public safety as district director for Senator Dylan Fernandes.
05
Working families first.
Jack is the son of a landscaper and an Army National Guard employee. The people who keep the Upper Cape running are working harder for wages that buy less, while childcare and college costs climb out of reach.
What he will push for
- Pass prevailing wage and wage theft legislation so multinational corporations stop taking advantage of working families.
- Fight for universal childcare so young families can stay on Cape Cod.
- Lower the cost of higher education.
He has done it before
Signed his IBEW 222 union card on his first day working on Beacon Hill, and grew up in a M.O.S.E.S. and N.A.G.E. union household.
06
Standing up to Trump.
When federal immigration agents came for Falmouth, Jack did not put out a statement. He put a policy on the books: no entry to town property without a judicial warrant.
No one here should be afraid to call the police or send their kid to school.
What he will push for
- A statewide judicial warrant standard for federal immigration agents on public property, modeled on what Falmouth already adopted.
- Language access — interpreters and multilingual staff — in the public services families actually walk into.
- Fund any critical services cut by the federal government.
He has done it before
Voted to bar federal immigration agents from Falmouth town property without a judicial warrant, and funded a Portuguese-speaking social worker for the town.
07
Spotlight on Beacon Hill: audit the legislature.
The Legislature wrote itself new transparency rules in 2025, then suspended them the same day to rush a vote. Testimony is public only where a committee chair allows it. And 72 percent of voters ordered an audit of the Legislature that Beacon Hill is still stonewalling.
Massachusetts has been reactive and unresponsive for too long. The housing and affordability crisis is urgent, and urgency requires a legislature that shows its work.
What he will push for
- Let the State Auditor audit the Legislature, like 72 percent of voters demanded in every city and town in the state.
- Make public testimony the rule for every committee, not a favor granted by the chair, and extend the public records law to cover the Legislature itself.
- A 72-hour public posting period before any floor vote, with no rule suspensions to skip it.
- Guaranteed up-or-down floor votes on priority bills, so they cannot die quietly in a study order.
He has done it before
Ran open Select Board discussions on the fights that mattered — the ICE warrant policy, 40B housing, the cannabis revenue question — and put his own vote on the record every time.
None of this happens without a win on November 3.
No corporate PAC money. Every dollar comes from people who live here.