Political career
Before running for office,he worked as a city planner in Lowell,as an aide to Phil Shea,and for the town of Groton,Massachusetts. [4] Elliott ran for office in 1995 but lost his initial run. [5] He ran again in 1997,and was successfully elected to the Lowell City Council. [4] He spent 24 years as part of the council where he focused on the city's finances. [6] He was known as the "fiscal watchdog". [4] In 2021,he lost his reelection campaign to Dan Rourke. [7]
During his tenure on the city council,he supported a citywide ban on pit bulls. [8]
Mayor of Lowell
Elliott was elected as Lowell's 34th Mayor on January 6,2014. [9] The Lowell Sun Newspaper endorsed him for a second term. [10] He left office on January 5,2016. [11]
During the beginning of his first term as mayor,a notable fire occurred in the Cambodian community in Lowell. The fire killed seven and displaced over fifty people,including children and elderly. [12] Elliott spent significant time organizing donations,and corresponding with federal agencies to get the displaced individuals replacements for important documents. [13] He later traveled to Phnom Penh and met the Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen when Lovell was made a sister city for Phnom Penh. [14] Lowell has the second largest Cambodian-American population in the United States,after Long Beach,California. [15]
In 2018,he ran for the 1st Middlesex district of the Massachusetts Senate,but lost the Democratic primary to Edward J. Kennedy. [2]
Massachusetts State Representative
Elliott filed for the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 16th Middlesex district in 2022. He faced Zoe Dzineku in the Democratic primary,which he won by 102 votes. [16] He received 65.3% of the vote on November 8,2022,defeating the Republican candidate Karla Miller for the office. In 2024,he ran for reelection unopposed. [2]
In 2023,he proposed criminalizing the assault and battery of a sports official. [17]
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