Jo Comerford
State Senate, Hampshire, Franklin & Worcester · Democratic · Massachusetts
Where they are running
Where they stand
Caregiving: Comerford supports allowing MassHealth to recognize and compensate a patient’s spouse as a caregiver when requested by the patient.
Mental health care: Comerford supports allowing patients to continue seeing their mental health clinician when the clinician leaves their insurance network.
Health insurance: Comerford supports prohibiting health plans from modifying or rescinding prior authorizations and requiring transparency about prior authorization policies.
Where Jo stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Housing · Likely supports: Massachusetts should preserve eligibility for emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness.
Housing · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state funding for affordable housing.
Economy and taxes · Likely supports: Massachusetts should invest in career, technical, and workforce-development programs.
Economy and taxes · Likely supports: Massachusetts should promote broad economic growth and job creation through state policy.
Rights and inclusion · Likely supports: Massachusetts should keep its state civil-rights protections for LGBTQ people.
Rights and inclusion · Supports: Massachusetts should expand services, accessibility, and opportunities for people with disabilities.
Energy and environment · Likely opposes: Massachusetts should speed up state permitting for clean energy projects.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should require new buildings to meet stricter energy-efficiency standards.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should expand clean electricity from renewable and other carbon-free sources.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should strengthen state climate adaptation and resilience planning for communities and infrastructure.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should conserve open space and invest in parks and public lands.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should protect and improve drinking water quality and water infrastructure.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should strengthen state action to lower household utility and energy costs.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state funding for public K-12 schools.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state support to make public higher education more affordable.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should expand publicly supported early education and child care.
Elections and government · Supports: Massachusetts should ensure responsive constituent services from elected officials and state offices.
Elections and government · Likely supports: Massachusetts should improve access to public services through simpler, more coordinated state systems.
Elections and government · Supports: Massachusetts should increase and improve state aid to municipalities.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand access to general health care coverage and services.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand access to mental-health and substance-use treatment and recovery services.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand the health and human-services workforce.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should support older adults through state services, benefits, and protections.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should support public health and preventive health programs.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand access to long-term care.
In the news
Northampton state senator hits back at online trolls in chippy social media video: ‘I have the hide of a rhino’ (bostonglobe.com, Sep 19, 2026)
Mass. state senator trolls her trolls in TikTok video (boston.com, Sep 19, 2026)