Burhan Azeem for State Senate

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• Massachusetts tried to fix its subway, and ended up with a cautionary tale. In 2014, a Chinese manufacturer bid 200 million dollars under the T's own estimate to build hundreds of new Red and Orange Line cars. The shells would come from China, final assembly would happen in a brand new Springfield factory, and the whole thing was sold as a jobs program, a climate program, and a plan to make Massachusetts a train manufacturing hub. The goals were good. The problem is we are not a train manufact

  5 June 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $1.5–2K · 250K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• The triple decker might be the most Massachusetts thing there is. It's also illegal to build in almost every city and town in the state. It used to be our original affordable housing. Cheap to build, affordable to buy, the home that housed generations of working families and new arrivals. Then over the last century we zoned it out almost everywhere. Now look closer. Walk around your neighborhood. Most of the buildings you love, the ones that give your street its character, couldn't be built to

  5 June 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $700 – $799 · 125K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• I've proven how to make housing affordable in Massachusetts. Remember to vote by September 1!

  26 August 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $500 – $599 · 15K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

• In 2011, Somerville voted unanimously to get rid of its liquor license cap. Every official agreed. Beacon Hill said no anyway. The cap is a relic from 1933. Because only so many licenses exist, a single one now sells for around $100,000 on the open market. That's $100,000 before you've poured a drink or hired anyone. Cambridge, right next door, was allowed to set its own rules. It blew past the old quota and helped make Central and Harvard Sq livelier. We have empty storefronts everywhere an

  1 July 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $400 – $499 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Early voting ends Friday at noon!

  26 August 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $300 – $399 · 7K+ impressions · Ad Library

• I'm not a consultant, but sometimes you don't need one. In 2022, the Federal Transit Administration audited the MBTA and the findings were brutal. Workers weren't properly trained. There weren't enough of them. And almost nothing flagged in a 2019 safety audit had actually been fixed. So what did the T do? It spent millions of dollars it didn't have hiring consultants, who diagnosed the same problems a federal report had already named. We paid to find out the same thing twice. Then there are

  16 June 2026 · Burhan Azeem for State Senate · $300 – $399 · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library