{"id":2037,"date":"2025-06-12T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/?post_type=press&#038;p=2037"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:58:46","slug":"common-cause-massachusetts-hosts-the-peoples-lobby-day","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/common-cause-massachusetts-hosts-the-peoples-lobby-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Massachusetts Hosts \u201cThe People\u2019s Lobby Day\u201d"},"template":"","class_list":["post-2037","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Bay Staters advocated for voting reforms like Same Day Registration \r\n\r\n","featured_image":38827,"press_type":146,"authors":"","related_issues":[105,464,462],"related_work":false,"location":24},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<b>Boston, MA \u2013<\/b> Yesterday<b>, <\/b>Common Cause Massachusetts hosted \u201cThe People\u2019s Lobby Day,\u201d its 2025 lobby day at the Massachusetts State House.\r\n\r\n\u201cSince the launch of our Platform for People Power earlier this year, Common Cause members across Massachusetts have shown they are ready to show up and fight for democracy when it matters most. The People\u2019s Lobby Day was all about bringing everyday people directly to the halls of power at the State House to speak to their lawmakers about pro-democracy bills like Same Day Registration, guaranteed hybrid meeting access, and ballot question funding transparency. To that end, the lobby day was a great success\u201d said <b>Geoff Foster, Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts.<\/b>\r\n\r\n40 people from across the Bay State gathered at the State House \u2013 nearly half of whom visited the State House for their first time \u2013\u00a0and another 75 contacted their lawmakers engaging nearly 100 state lawmakers or their staff to advocate for much needed pro-democracy policies, including:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/HD856\">H.834\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S505\">S.505<\/a> Same day registration;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H3299\">H.3299<\/a> Guaranteed hybrid public meetings; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H868\">H. 868<\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/s507\">S.507<\/a> Ballot Spending Transparency Act.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe People\u2019s Lobby Day followed the announcement earlier this week of the Ballot Spending Transparency Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthbeacon.org\/politics\/a-push-for-more-transparency-on-ballot-question-spending-fundraising\/\">legislation to increase transparency in the reporting process for campaign spending on statewide ballot questions.<\/a>\r\n\r\nLearn more about the Platform for People Power at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\">www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts<\/a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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