I’m Johnathan Creque, a 25-year-old Democratic Socialist running to represent the 1st Franklin District in the Massachusetts State House.
Raised in South Deerfield by a single-mom, I have seen first hand how the status quo fails working families while benefiting the most powerful. I graduated from Frontier Regional High School before attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I was Treasurer of UMass College Democrats and graduated with honors.
After graduating, I began working as a Staff Assistant and Constituent Services Caseworker for Senator Elizabeth Warren. My job was to help assist the constituents of Massachusetts navigate difficulties with Federal agencies like Social Security, Medicare, and Veterans Affairs.
I then became the Regional Director and In-state health policy lead. As Regional Director for Worcester-MetroWest and Norfolk County, I oversaw the region’s constituent services and met with non-profits, municipalities, businesses, elected officials, and constituents to track and identify important concerns in the region and work to support the Commonwealth at the federal level.
As one of Senator Warren’s Regional Directors, I spent every day helping families navigate a broken system. I’m running because we can’t keep putting Band-Aids on structural problems; we need to fix them at the root. With the federal government not only refusing to address these crises but actively fueling them, it is more important than ever to have state leaders who will fight for the people of the 1st Franklin. I believe working people should have more say than the corporations that profit off our basic needs. On September 1st, I’m asking for your vote to help bring a movement for the working class to the State House.
