Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury. Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.
Mike has been named Legislator of the Year by the Mass. Municipal Association, the Greater Boston Association for Retarded Citizens and the Mass. Developmental Disabilities Council. Boston Magazine named him “Best Democratic Rising Star” and both the Boston Phoenix and the Lowell Sun named him one of the Ten Best Legislators in Massachusetts.