{"id":201,"date":"2026-05-27T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:06:06","slug":"on-the-ballot-2026-ewen-campen-and-gilligan-corsetti-vie-for-27th-middlesex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In one of several rounds of musical chairs in the State House, representative Erika Uyterhoeven\u2019s quest for the state Senate opened her seat representing the 27<sup>th<\/sup> Middlesex District.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=199\">Cambridge housing does follow economic laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Competing for her seat are Ben-Ewen Campen, councilor from Somerville\u2019s Ward 3, and Olivia Gilligan-Corsetti, a former political aide and campaign worker who currently is a substitute teacher in Somerville.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Housing, surveillance priorities for Ewen-Campen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Both Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti told Cambridge Day they think change is possible for the issues they care about at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>A Cambridge native, Ewen-Campen was elected to the City Council in 2017. He also works as a genetics researcher at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make the kind of changes that Somerville wants to have \u2014 the fundamental changes in affordability, in funding public schools, in standing up to Trump and blocking the surveillance state \u2014 most of that work happens at the state level,\u201d Ewen-Campen said. \u201cThere are just fundamental limitations to municipal power in Massachusetts, and building statewide coalitions is ultimately the only way to make this kind of change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, Somerville has pushed to institute transfer fees \u2014to be levied on most housing transactions and allocated to affordable housing \u2014 but needs approval from the state legislature. Somerville first submitted a Home Rule petition on the matter in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Ewen-Campen also cited surveillance. In 2019, the Somerville Council passed a ban on facial recognition software that also set guidelines for the city\u2019s use of surveillance technology, a move sponsored by Ewen-Campen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=198\">Small businesses face 13% health insurance increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ewen-Campen thinks that the state house can mirror this work. \u201cData protection, data privacy, ensuring that we are not letting AI make critical decisions around who gets a mortgage, who gets access to benefits, and making sure that we are not letting surveillance capitalism run amok without regulations in our state\u201d are all priorities, he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Gilligan-Corsetti emphasizes the environment and women\u2019s health<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gilligan-Corsetti\u2019s key policy focuses come from personal experiences. Growing up in Somerville, Gilligan-Corsetti watched her sister struggle with endometriosis (a condition where uterine-like tissue grows in other areas of the body, causing sometimes severe pain and other issues) \u00a0and her father battle cancer, which doctors said was a result of the pesticide RoundUp. Women\u2019s health and the environment are now her priority issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus on pesticides and women\u2019s health is personal. I was eight when I watched the healthcare system dismiss my 13-year-old sister\u2019s pain for years before diagnosing severe endometriosis. My father\u2019s doctors believe his fatal non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma was caused by Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide still used in Massachusetts today,\u201d Gilligan-Corsetti told Cambridge Day. In the state house, one of the first things she\u2019d do is push for pesticide restrictions, she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said her experience caring for her father makes her well suited to act as state representative, as does her political experience, which started as an intern in the Massachusetts House Gilligan-Corsetti was an organizer and then a senior constituent services aide for Governor Healey and served as campaign manager for former Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne\u2019s last re-election run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to run when I learned the open seat in my home district\u00a0was uncontested, and I felt it was urgent to give voters a choice \u2014 especially now, when state legislators are the last line of defense against a federal administration actively working against our residents\u2019 rights to abortion, immigrant protections, and food, fuel, and housing benefits,\u201d Gilligan-Corsetti said.<\/p>\n<p>If elected, both Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti said that working as state representative would be their full-time job.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=196\">Youth sports leaders: Ahern Field needs artificial turf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of several rounds of musical chairs in the State House, representative Erika Uyterhoeven\u2019s quest for the state Senate opened her seat representing the 27th Middlesex District. 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