State Representative, Sixth Plymouth District: Duxbury, Pembroke, Hanson, Halifax and part of Marshfield. Check your sample ballot for your precinct. Every line on this page is a recorded vote or the candidate’s own words on their own website. Tap any receipt.
Ken Sweezey, on his own website: “Beacon Hill wants to continue raising taxes, slapping unnecessary fees on your utility bills, and chasing small businesses out of our communities.”
Receipts
- 2024 General, Sixth Plymouth: Sweezey 52.9% (14,908) over Rebecca Coletta 47.0%: Secretary of the Commonwealth, ElectionStats
- Voted Yes to cut the state sales tax from 6.25% to 5%, House roll call 158 (25 to 131); and Yes to cut the income tax from 5% to 4%, roll call 159 (25 to 132), both Apr. 27, 2026
- Voted No on the 2026 energy bill, H. 5151: House roll call 141, Feb. 26, 2026 (passed 128 to 27)
Her affordability plan is government cost caps and assistance, not lower tax rates. She has not pledged to cut a single tax.
Voted yes to cut the state sales tax to 5 percent and the income tax to 4 percent. Both were blocked by the Beacon Hill majority.
Receipts
- Sweezey recorded Yea on cutting the sales tax to 5%, House roll call 158 (25 to 131), and on cutting the income tax to 4%, roll call 159 (25 to 132)
- Rushing’s plan is cost caps and assistance, with no stated tax-rate cut: electjbr.com, Affordability
Would “cap utility cost increases so families aren’t forced to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families.”
Electric Bill
Voted no on the 2026 energy bill, and says Beacon Hill keeps “slapping unnecessary fees on your utility bills.”
Receipts
- Sweezey recorded Nay on the 2026 energy bill H. 5151: House roll call 141 (passed 128 to 27, nearly all Nays Republican); his words: kensweezey.com
- Rushing: electjbr.com, Affordability
Would “expand down payment assistance programs so more working families can afford to buy homes.”
Local Control
Filed H.2340 to repeal Section 3A of the MBTA Communities Act, and co-filed H.2338 to exempt towns without a train, subway or ferry station — local control over zoning.
Receipts
- Sweezey, primary sponsor of H.2340, “An Act repealing section 3A relative to MBTA communities”: malegislature.gov, H.2340; co-sponsor of H.2338, “An Act relative to exemptions from MBTA community designations”: H.2338; kensweezey.com
- Rushing: electjbr.com, Affordability
An “Army veteran and mother of four,” a former Pembroke Select Board member who worked at the U.S. State Department. She holds no office now.
Are
Born and raised in Hanson, a first-term representative who came “from law enforcement to the biotech industry and now to public service.”
Receipts
- Sweezey: born and raised in Hanson; “from law enforcement to the biotech industry and now to public service”; in office since January 2025: kensweezey.com
- Rushing: “Army veteran and mother of four”, former Pembroke Select Board member, worked at the U.S. State Department: electjbr.com
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Election Day
Votes are from the roll calls of the Massachusetts House. In 2024 Sweezey won this seat 52.9% to 47.0% (Secretary of the Commonwealth). Rushing holds no state office; her side is her own campaign website. Quotations are trimmed for length only, never reworded. Sources were read on October 6, 2026. Photos: each candidate’s campaign photo.