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Mike Connolly is a Cambridge activist, attorney, and politician. He defeated Representative Timothy J. Toomey Jr. in September 2016 in the Democratic primary for the 26th Middlesex District, which comprises East Cambridge and East Somerville. Connolly was active with Occupy Boston and ran unsuccessfully against Toomey in 2012. In 2016, he was backed by Our Revolution, a Bernie Sanders-based political organization, and was endorsed by the prominent Cambridge academics Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Lessig. Connolly won over Toomey by ~300 votes and was elected to represent the 26th Middlesex District after Toomey's term ends; Connolly did not run against a Republican in the November 2016 election for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Connolly has opposed the November 2016 "ballot question that would lift the charter school cap" and supports the legalization of recreational marijuana. Connolly is 6'8", played college football at Duke University, and graduated from Boston College Law School. He is married to his wife Kacy Karlen.