Suzanne Bump, a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts State Auditor, today announced she has been endorsed by State Senator Susan Tucker. Senator Tucker, who represents the cities and towns of Lawrence, Andover, Dracut and Tewksbury, joins Congressmen Barney Frank and John Olver, State Auditor Joe DeNucci and many other mayors and state legislators who have endorsed Bump. Bump also won the majority vote for the statewide position at this year’s Democratic State Convention.

“I have known and worked with Suzanne for many years, and her knowledge of state government combined with her history of delivering measurable results for taxpayers is the ideal background for her to be a tremendously effective State Auditor,” said Tucker. “Suzanne Bump will hold government agencies accountable for their finances and performance and I am very pleased to endorse her for this important position.”
“I’m honored to receive Senator Tucker’s endorsement,” said Bump. “I’m running because I believe that no taxpayer should ever have to wonder whether anyone in state government is on their side or whether a dollar they give to state government is a dollar well spent, and no one who relies on a government service should ever have to wonder whether that service will be compromised by a failing bureaucracy or a dishonest contractor. As State Auditor, I will use the tools of the office to make government work better for the residents and taxpayers of Massachusetts.”
Bump began her public service career in 1985 when she was elected state representative in Braintree, where she served her constituents for eight years. In 1991, while Chairwoman of the Commerce and Labor Committee, she authored a landmark bill to reform worker’s compensation costs that has brought fairness and accountability to the system and saved businesses millions of dollars every year, while delivering faster judgments to injured workers.

After 14 years working in the private sector representing non-profits and businesses both large and small, Bump returned to government service as Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Office where she reformed and streamlined the department, reducing first-stage dispute resolution timeframes from 2-3 years to 60-90 days, consolidating the state’s labor relations agencies, creating 11,000 new summer jobs for teens and upgrading the technology to improve her department’s productivity for job training, workplace and downtown improvements, and unemployment insurance checks.