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![Decker said voters “deserve to know more about why [MacKay] didn’t vote in the most consequential presidential election in our lifetime,” confirming July 27 that she meant “the 2024 general election that returned Donald Trump to power, despite speaking frequently about the harms of his administration and voting in that year’s Democratic primary.” Decker also noted MacKay’s past political registration as a Republican.
The MacKay campaign shared documentation from Cambridge’s Election Commission showing they did vote Nov. 5, 2024, the seventh time they voted in Cambridge since 2021. “Kamala Harris wasn’t my perfect presidential candidate, but I volunteered for her and I voted for her in November because we all know how dangerous Trump is,” MacKay said.
It is part of MacKay’s story as a candidate that they “grew up as a closeted LGBTQ+ kid in a conservative part of Florida,” and in the video MacKay said that there they “answered the call of local racial justice activists to participate in our local competitive elections and vote for the lesser of two evils in the closed Republican primaries.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkeuwdhuycdmx6dtuzewcx7/bafkreiebb5yb27pdyyrgzghjahiian5pqu5efnhjc4uugdofbsludrly5e)
![“Another way to look at [the definition of] affordable is less expensive than the alternative,” McGovern said. “If you take a project where before multifamily housing, a developer would’ve built a single-family $3 million home and after multifamily housing is building six townhouses at … $2 million, right? Those are still six units that are cheaper than what the alternative was before.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzkeuwdhuycdmx6dtuzewcx7/bafkreibe3i7c4sb6c4q5r67v6lnxk2xiuhr6r7d2rjnborhu5jymdii6ki)
