MA-09

Local SEIU Official Challenges Rep. Lynch After Vote Against Health Care

Rachel Slajda | April 19, 2010, 3:00PM

Mac D'Alessandro of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

When Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) announced he would vote against health care reform, several unions suggested they would find someone else to endorse come November.

That someone may be Mac D'Alessandro, the regional political director for an SEIU local in Massachusetts. D'Alessandro announced this weekend that he will challenge Lynch for the Democratic nomination. He must get 2,000 signatures by May 4 in order to get on the primary ballot.

D'Alessandro has worked for the SEIU since 2001, according to the Boston Globe, but he has never held public office.

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