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$13,036cash on hand as of Sep 30, 2026
$18,360raised in 2025–26
$40,149spent in 2025–26
Account: Lovely, Joan (OCPF ID 14258). See the full reports at OCPF
Year by year
| Year | Raised | Spent | Cash at the end |
|---|
| 2026 | $3,362 | $21,434 | $13,036 so far |
| 2025 | $14,998 | $18,715 | $28,608 |
| 2024 | $53,833 | $94,403 | $31,317 |
| 2023 | $17,509 | $12,659 | $71,829 |
| 2022 | $70,541 | $83,042 | $66,815 |
| 2021 | $29,251 | $17,374 | $79,317 |
| 2020 | $9,372 | $17,927 | $67,441 |
Where the money comes from, 2025–26
- Individuals (listed by name)70% $13,060
- PACs (political action committees)20% $3,800
- Unions and associations7% $1,300
- Other political committees3% $500
Out of $18,660 in contributions and candidate loans listed line by line. Not included: $3,507 in other receipts, such as money moved between the campaign’s own bank accounts, interest and returned payments.
Gifts from individuals: where donors live
- Towns in the Second Essex District32% $4,200
- Elsewhere in Massachusetts59% $7,760
- Other states8% $1,100
Top organizations giving, 2025–26
- 1199 SEIU MA PAC Union or association$1,000
- SEIU 509 COPE Union or association$1,000
- Boston Police Patrolmen's Assn, Inc. Pac PAC$500
- MA & Northern NE Laborers' District Council Pol Action Comm PAC$500
- MA Pol Action Comm for Radiological Health Care PAC$500
- MA & No. New England Laborers' District Council Political committee$500
- Massachusetts Association of Realtors Pac PAC$400
- Greater Boston Real Estate Board PAC PAC$350
- SEIU 888 Union or association$300
- Mass-ala Pac PAC$300
- MA Food Industry Pol Action Comm (MFIPAC) PAC$250
Donors’ employers, 2025–26
Gifts from individuals added up by the employer they listed. No names. Retired, self-employed and not employed are left out.
- The Brennan Group 5 gifts$1,000
- Charles River Ventures 1 gift$1,000
- Smith, Costello & Crawford 4 gifts$800
- Salem Academy Charter School 1 gift$500
- YMCA of the North Shore 1 gift$500
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts 4 gifts$500
- Paradigm Properties 1 gift$500
- Capone Iron Corporation 2 gifts$400
- Delaney & Associates 2 gifts$400
- Ma Charter Public School Association 2 gifts$350
Individual donors giving $200 or more, 2025–26
34 people gave this campaign $200 or more in total. Name and town only, as the campaign reported them.
- Rick Burns Boston$1,000
- Anthony Helies Weston$1,000
- Charles Longfield Silver Lake, NH$1,000
- Nina Cohen Salem$500
- Charity Lezama Salem$500
- Craig Lundberg Saugus$500
- Kevin McCall Cambridge$500
- John Hall Beverly$250
- Darleen Melis Salem$250
- Richard Blazo Beverly$250
- Virginia Blazo Beverly$250
- Stephen Immerman Salem$250
- Carlo Basile Boston$200
- Lynda Bernard Boston$200
- John Brennan Cambridge$200
- John Brennan Boston$200
- Patricia Brennan Cambridge$200
- Gary Capone Winthrop$200
- S.j. Capone North Reading$200
- Michael Costello Boston$200
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- Jennifer Crawford Boston$200
- Mark Delaney Reading$200
- Scott Delaney Revere$200
- Adelaide Guarracino Amesbury$200
- Jon Hurst Beverly$200
- Eylem Icin Lynnfield$200
- Jacqueline McCarthy Reading$200
- Tim Nicolette Cambridge$200
- Alexandra Noveletsky Reading$200
- Daniel O'Brien Saugus$200
- Abbe Young Smith Swampscott$200
- James Smith Boston$200
- Mary Tamer Boston$200
- Michelle McGee Boston$200
Where they spend it, 2025–26
- Bank and payment processing fees29% $11,597
- Office, phone, software and supplies20% $8,081
- Donations, sponsorships and tickets to others’ events15% $5,887
- Printing, mail, signs and ads14% $5,773
- Other or not described10% $3,963
- Events, food and meetings10% $3,944
- Staff, consultants and professional services2% $669
- Travel and vehicle costs1% $573
Out of $40,487 in spending listed line by line. Groups are MassVoter’s rough sorting of what each payment was for.
Top payees
- Figsberry Creative Group Office, phone, software and supplies$5,000
- Figsburry Creative Salem MA Us Card Purchase Bank and payment processing fees$3,649
- Actblue Bank and payment processing fees$2,938
- MA Democratic Party Bank and payment processing fees$2,500
- Mailchimp Bank and payment processing fees$1,242
- Amazon Office, phone, software and supplies$1,188
- AT&t Store Charleston SC Us Card Purchase Bank and payment processing fees$1,122
- Staples Office, phone, software and supplies$820
- USPS Po Printing, mail, signs and ads$797
- 1260 Eagle Tribune Pub North Andover MA Us Card Purchase Printing, mail, signs and ads$796
- Boston Globe Media Boston MA Us Card Purchase Printing, mail, signs and ads$704
- BJS Whole 6 Hut Danvers MA Us Card Purchase Other or not described$686
How to read this
- Every state legislator has a campaign account that reports to OCPF, the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Most file through a bank that reports to OCPF, so totals are updated often.
- “Cash on hand” is what was left on the latest report. “Raised” and “spent” are OCPF’s totals for 2025 and 2026; “raised” includes any loans from the legislator.
- The breakdowns come from the line-by-line reports for 2025–2026. Shares count money, not in-kind gifts of goods or services. “PACs”, “party committees” and “other candidates’ committees” use the account type OCPF lists for each giving committee. Many unions give through their own PACs, which are counted as PACs.
- “Small gifts not listed one by one” are gifts of $50 or less that the law lets campaigns report as one total.
- Where gifts come from is based on the town each person listed. Some towns are split between districts; gifts from a split town count as “in district towns” even if the donor lives in another district’s part of town.
- Individual donors are shown by name and town only, and only when their gifts to this campaign in 2025–2026 add up to $200 or more. Employers are added up across donors, without names. Names are spelled as the campaign reported them.
- Spending groups are MassVoter’s rough sorting of the payee and purpose each campaign reported; OCPF does not use fixed categories. Credit card bills and reimbursements are counted by the charges listed under them, not twice. Payments to individual people are shown as one total, without names.
- MassVoter updates these numbers every night from OCPF. Last update: October 22, 2026.
These are public campaign finance figures from OCPF. They are not a grade and are not tied to how anyone votes.