Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Jim McGovern Among Massachusetts Politicians To Take Money From Opioid-Tied Sackler Family

Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Jim McGovern Among Massachusetts Politicians To Take Money From Opioid-Tied Sackler Family

Several Massachusetts politicians have gotten sizable campaign contributions in past years from the family that owns a pharmaceutical company that has admitted guilt in the nation's opioid epidemic.

The list includes a congressman and both current U.S. senators.

Rayla Campbell Receives 695 Write-In Votes In General Election Against Ayanna Pressley
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Rayla Campbell Receives 695 Write-In Votes In General Election Against Ayanna Pressley

Tom Joyce

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) cruised to a re-election victory on November 3 this year, but a Republican challenger who ran as a write-in received several hundred votes in the election.

Republican Rayla Campbell of Randolph got 695 votes in the election, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's web site. It accounted for 0.2 percent of the vote in the election.

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