Below is the Zoom link for the Randolph Democratic Town Committee's virtual forum to be held on Sunday May 22 at 1:00 PM. No registration needed!

A rough schedule of the Forum:
• 1:05-1:20 gubernatorial candidates
• 1:20-1:50 Lieutenant gubernatorial candidates
• 1:50-2:10 Attorney General candidates
• 2:10-2:30 Statewide candidates: SOS, Treasurer, and Auditor
• 2:30-2:55 State Senate and State House & County Sheriff

We have prepared questions for the candidates on topics of interest to Randolph voters and also to the rest of the South Shore. Candidates are invited to respond in writing (which we'll post here), and/or address the questions in their five-minute speech.
1. Our tri-town area has excessive PFAS in our drinking water, like reservoirs across Massachusetts. What can you or the Commonwealth do to help with paying for filtering to remove PFAS, and running outside testing to identify PFAS sources?
2. Our town government has been promised ARPA money and infrastructure money, like municipalities across Massachusetts. But the money is slow in coming, especially through Norfolk County. What can you or the Commonwealth do to help expedite this "emergency funding" so we can actually spend it on emergency needs?
3. Randolph qualifies as an "environmental justice community" and might qualify as a "gateway city" and numerous other special designations. But we have trouble finding applicable grants through MAPC and other state agencies, while other wealthier towns and larger cities seem to always beat us to every grant. What can you or the Commonwealth do to help with "municipal equity" in state programs?
4. Randolph always seems to be on the losing end of every state-based formula, too, compared to other wealthier towns and larger cities. For example, we lose millions in Chapter 90 road repair funds because we cannot afford to get our streets "accepted". What can you or the Commonwealth do to help?
5. The worst formula for Randolph is the Chapter 70 education funding formula. We have huge expenses due to our high immigrant and ESL population, which results in high local real estate taxes despite poor scores for our schools. What can you or the Commonwealth do to update the formula to get communities like ours more state funding for our schools?
6. In the wake of overturning Roe, what can be done in Massachusetts to prevent further erosion of reproductive rights?
7. What can be done in Massachusetts to protect same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights if the "right to privacy" is eroded?
8. What are your views on the Fair Share Amendment ballot initiative?
9. What are your views on the November ballot initiative concerning Rideshare working conditions?

We made a video of the caucus and played it repeatedly on RCTV. For this virtual forum, we will record and offer the video to RCTV as well as to surrounding South Shore towns (we're inviting county candidates and state senate candidates as well as statewide candidates). The new candidates since our caucus:

Contact Information about local Democratic candidates