Alan Khazei Announces $1.6M Raise From Over 2,700 Contributions

(Brookline, MA) - Alan Khazei, City Year Co-Founder and Democratic Candidate for Congress in the Massachusetts Fourth Congressional District, today announced his campaign’s end of quarter financial results. Khazei is reporting a final Q2 raise of $545,710, bringing total fundraising for his campaign to $1,619,839. The campaign’s cash-on-hand is $1,150,072.

In addition to the total raise, Khazei announced over 2,700 individual contributions to his campaign, another signal of his powerful grassroots support.

“I am honored to have this tremendous grassroots surge of support behind our campaign. We are building a movement that puts people before politics. The best antidote for the current failure of our system to adequately address the crises we face in our public health, economy and race relations is to honor and elevate the will of the people and vast majorities across our district and country who are demanding big change,” Khazei said. “ We can deliver a New Deal for our time that makes economic fairness, gun safety, climate action, universal affordable healthcare and racial justice a reality with a movement that busts down the doors of Congress and lets the people in. That’s how we, in the national service movement, established and grew AmeriCorps. That’s why I’m running.”

Khazei has $802,467 on-hand for the primary and $347,605 on-hand for the general.

Joe Garvey, Campaign Manager, said, “We just had our best quarter of fundraising of the campaign. We are raising the resources we need to be successful in the primary. Given the late primary date, we believe we are also in the best position to immediately defend this historic Democratic Seat from the Republican opponent. Our coalition is building across the MA-04 district.”

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www.alankhazei.com

Alan Khazei, City Year co-founder and service movement leader, is running for Congress in MA-04. He lives in Brookline with his wife, daughter, son, and dog Zuzu. Leading on the COVID-19 crisis, Khazei co-authored an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe on creating 500,000 service year jobs to tackle COVID-19, two Politico Op-Eds on saving small businesses, issued a comprehensive COVID-19 Action Plan and published a three-part path forward on Medium.

He also launched a comprehensive policy vision on climate action and on transportation, found on his website. His most recent Op-Ed is co-authored with former NAACP President, Professor Cornell William Brooks, and talks about his plan for an American Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission. Khazei has been endorsed by State Senator Marc Pacheco, Massachusetts State Representatives Jeff Roy and Smitty Pignatelli, Newton City Councillor and LGBTQ+ activist Holly Ryan, former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Four-Star General Stanley McChrystal, Congressperson Jamie Raskin, former Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu, former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Douglas Wilson, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Saya Ameli Hajebi, National Spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, lifelong Civil Rights activist Hubie Jones, prominent civic entrepreneur Colette Phillips and the Leadership Now Project.

Khazei also has been named a Gun Sense Candidate by Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety. Go to www.alankhazei.com to learn more.
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