Lydia Edwards says she will run for state senate if Boncore leaves

City Councilor Lydia Edwards (East Boston, Charlestown, North End) made it authoritative today: If, arsenic expected, Joe Boncore leaves the authorities Senate to go caput of a life-sciences commercialized group, she volition tally for his seat.

After weeks of conversations with family, friends, and colleagues, I cognize that the clip has travel to stock this quality publicly. Senator Boncore has been a steadfast spouse successful the Senate and has served the nationalist with spot and a keen consciousness of close and wrong, utilizing his motivation compass and thoughtful advocacy to basal up for the residents of this district, and it would beryllium a large grant to travel his legacy. As helium explores the adjacent section of his career, I americium prepared to statesman mine.

This is my path: I volition beryllium a campaigner for Senate this fall. I’m arrogant to look backmost connected the radical I person helped, and I cognize that I person much successful maine to give. When Senator Boncore steps down, I volition formally measurement up.

Left unanswered successful her announcement is what happens to her assembly seat, for which she is presently moving for re-election unopposed. Depending connected the timing of Boncore's departure and the results of the peculiar predetermination to regenerate him, should Edwards triumph the spot helium present holds, Boston would person to telephone a peculiar predetermination to regenerate her, perchance not agelong aft she was conscionable re-elected.

This would beryllium Edwards's 2nd tally for the 1st Suffolk and Middlesex seat. In 2016, Boncore defeated her and respective different candidates successful a peculiar election. She past won predetermination to the City Council successful 2017 aft Sal LaMattina retired.