BUZZARDS BAY -- A lifelong resident of Cape Cod with more than 35 years of combined legal, law enforcement, and military experience, Jay McMahon announced today he will again seek the Republican Nomination for Massachusetts Attorney General.
Jay is filing his Statement of Organization with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) in preparation for his run for this statewide office.
McMahon was the Republican nominee for Massachusetts attorney general in 2018, having successfully defeated his opponent for the GOP nomination in a 61% to 39% vote. In the general election, McMahon garnered over 800,000 votes. In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, McMahon also ran for State Senate for the Plymouth and Barnstable District.
Throughout his career, McMahon has been a successful trial attorney, having litigated cases at every level in the Massachusetts court system, as well as within the Federal system. His small business is located in Buzzards Bay and employs several area residents. Additionally, McMahon served in law enforcement during the 1970’s, and has over 12 years of corporate management experience.
McMahon also proudly served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard as a lieutenant in the Military Police during the 1970’s. McMahon has been very active in his local community of Bourne. He has served on the Bourne Financial Development Corporation, and volunteered for Bourne Babe Ruth Baseball as the Coordinator, Bourne Youth Baseball as a Coach and Tournament Director, and a player-manager in the Baseball Clubs of Cape Cod, as well as a guest lecturer at area high schools and community colleges.
McMahon was elected in 2020 to serve on the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, representing the Plymouth and Barnstable Senate District.
Married to his wife Shelley for 30 years, McMahon is the proud father of five, the eldest of whom sadly fell victim to the opioid epidemic in 2008, after sustaining injuries while serving in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
McMahon attended the Massachusetts Military Academy and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. Additionally, he earned his Law Degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
In discussing why he wants to be attorney general, McMahon has stated the following:
“Maura Healey has used the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General for her extreme left wing 'woke' political agenda, but has ignored the plight of our first responders who are now being targeted and fired over unconstitutional vaccine mandates. When the pandemic struck in early 2020, these First Responders, nurses, and healthcare workers were our heroes, putting themselves in harms way to help those victims of Covid-19. Now those same heroes of being treated as 'zeroes,' and are being fired by the government, with no response from Maura Healey.
"I will stand up for the individual rights of our first responder heroes. I will stand with the police and fire unions for their members who have been fired because of the mandates. I will join in their litigation to keep further members from being fired. And I will initiate further litigation to help those who have been fired to recover their jobs. I back the Blue!
"I will stand with parents when they raise legitimate concerns before their school committee meetings trying to discuss what is being taught to their children. Concerned parents are not domestic terrorists that should be investigated by the federal government. They are American citizens exercising their First Amendment right to question and express grievances to duly elected school committees who insist on teaching our children Critical Race Theory.
"All over the nation, and even in Massachusetts, we have district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute “quality of life” crimes. Some district attorneys have issued whole categories of crimes that they will not prosecute. I intend to make it my job to help municipal police officers who arrest someone for these particular types of crimes. When those district attorneys will not prosecute them, my office will step up and prosecute those crimes on behalf of those police officers. We just cannot refuse to enforce the law and let anarchy rein in our streets. I will keep Massachusetts citizens safe!
"Since the pandemic, Covid-19 deaths have grabbed the headlines. However, the Commonwealth is still suffering thousands of deaths each year due to opioid addiction. I have a three-prong approach to deal with those matters. In Massachusetts we have laws against selling illegal drugs in a 'school zone.'
"Why isn’t every area on the streets treated as a 'school zone?' Does this mean that everywhere else is a sanctuary for selling drugs? We need to dry up the source of drugs in Massachusetts. We need to make it brutally difficult for drug dealers and thugs to ply their trade in this state. And we need to give quality rehabilitative care to the opiate addict whereby they are actually healed from their addiction, and thus giving them their lives back.
"The 'wokeness' coming from our political leaders has to end. We are placing more concerned for the perpetrators of crimes than we are the victims of crime. My only agenda for this office will be to enforce individual civil rights and liberties, prosecute criminals, and keep the citizens of the Commonwealth safe."
