# Cindy Friedman

Cindy Friedman is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate for district Fourth Middlesex.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Massachusetts Senate, district Fourth Middlesex
- Serving since: 2017-07-25
- Current term: MA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/456b0061-febd-4ff7-8547-42be0685526f

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/456b0061-febd-4ff7-8547-42be0685526f (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Friedman sits at −1.04 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 91% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −1.04 (standard error 0.03), from 571 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 8.7% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (MA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 71 bills: 65 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 60. 4.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Massachusetts Senate 2.0%; rank 5 of 40).

Recent sponsored bills:

- S 3229: An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington… (passed one chamber, 2026-07-29) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3229/
- S 3217: Amendment S.3217 (introduced, 2026-07-23) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3217/
- S 3169: An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington… (in committee, 2026-07-29) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3169/
- SD 3961: An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington… (in committee, 2026-06-29) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3961/
- S 3035: Health Care Financing -- Extension Order (in committee, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3035/
- SD 3775: Committee of the Senate be appointed to wait upon Her Excellency the Governor (introduced, 2026-03-18) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3775/
- S 3016: Order relative to requesting the opinions of the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on important questions of law relative to legislative… (introduced, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3016/
- S 3015: Order relative to requesting the opinions of the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on important questions of law relative to the public… (introduced, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S3015/
- S 2964: Health Care Financing -- Extension Order (in committee, 2026-03-19) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S2964/
- S 2933: An Act authorizing the town of Billerica to ban second generation anticoagulant rodenticides within the town (in committee, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S2933/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $40.1K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 90% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/CFF0
- Campaign site: https://cindyfriedman.org/meet-cindy/
- X: https://x.com/cindyfriedmanma
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cindyfriedmanma/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sencindyfriedman
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8FVSqNF-iBWXL3Dg15fJw

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/456b0061-febd-4ff7-8547-42be0685526f