¿Oíste? Supports Bump’s Vision for Accountability and Smarter Government
¿Oíste?, The Massachusetts Latino Political Organization, endorsed Suzanne Bump’s candidacy for State Auditor of Massachusetts.
¿Oíste? is a political organization consisting of six regional councils throughout Massachusetts whose mission is to advance the political, social and economic standing of Latinos and Latinas in the state. ¿Oíste? seeks to engage Latinos in their community at the grassroots level to change systems and structures that have historically barricaded their access to quality education, health care, housing and economic development.
“I am honored and excited to have the endorsement of ¿Oíste?” said Bump. “This campaign is about delivering leadership to Massachusetts residents from every different background and heritage, and I pledge to use the tools of the Auditor’s office to make state government more accountable to the taxpayers and residents who rely on its services.”
Bump has been endorsed by the Democratic Committees of Boston Wards 4, 9 and 10, comprising the neighborhoods of Roxbury, the South End and Jamaica Plain, current Auditor Joe DeNucci, Congressmen Barney Frank and John Olver and numerous state legislators and mayors. Bump also won the majority vote for Auditor at the Democratic State Convention in Worcester on June 5th.
Bump began her public service career in 1985 when she was elected state representative in Braintree, where she served her constituents for 8 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.
As Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Office under Governor Deval Patrick 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.
