CLT Legislative
Rating for the
2007-08 Session
Once again the House avoided a direct
vote on the income tax rollback, but CLT was able to compile 16
votes which reflected the Legislature’s dedication or disdain for
the taxpayers. Four votes were counted dealing with the corporate
tax package and cigarette tax hike as well as two exempting seniors
from any override increases. We liked votes on a firearms license
decrease from $100 to $40 and the 2/3 thirds votes needed to either
raise taxes or spend from the rainy day fund. Striking $453,000 from
the Governor’s DC office, limiting legislator’s testimony to half an
hour at hearings, and offering communities Municipal Health
Insurance were positive. Votes on increasing property tax valuation
on commercial property, eliminating workers rights joining a union
and raising the COLA cap were frowned upon. Finally, taxpayers got a
break by the vote to allow the two day sales tax holiday.
The Senate was rated on 14 votes with
six being similar to the House including two on the corporate tax
package, along with ones on the cigarette tax hike, $450,000 for the
Gov’s DC office, Municipal Health Insurance and the sales tax
holiday. We didn’t like the two votes on a real estate sales tax for
Martha’s Vineyard then Nantucket, as well as an attempt to increase
taxes on alcohol. A five-year time limit on welfare, mandating
treble damages on employers for Wage Act violations and transparency
in the state’s fiscal affairs were votes counted. Finally a vote to
“uphold the decision of the Chair” to avoid addressing the income
tax rollback and a standing committee vote to allow an income tax
vote were considered essential to this rating.
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SENATE MEMBERS RATING |
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SENATOR |
PARTY-CITY/TOWN |
RATING |
| |
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|
|
Antonioni |
(D-Leominster) |
15% |
|
Augustus |
(D-Worcester) |
7% |
|
Baddour |
(D-Methuen) |
50% |
|
Berry |
(D-Peabody) |
15% |
|
Brewer |
(D-Barre) |
21% |
|
Brown |
(R-Wrentham) |
93% |
|
Buoniconti |
(D-West Springfield) |
36% |
|
Candaras |
(D-Wilbraham) |
21% |
|
Chandler |
(D-Worcester) |
22% |
|
Creedon |
(D-Brockton) |
32% |
|
Creem |
(D-Newton) |
14% |
|
Downing |
(D-Pittsfield) |
21% |
|
Fargo |
(D-Lincoln) |
21% |
|
Galluccio |
(D-Cambridge) |
20% |
|
Hart |
(D-Boston) |
15% |
|
Hedlund |
(R-Weymouth) |
93% |
|
Jehlen |
(D-Somerville) |
7% |
|
Joyce |
(D-Milton) |
57% |
|
Knapik |
(R-Westfield) |
93% |
|
Marzilli |
(D-Arlington) |
0% |
|
McGee |
(D-Lynn) |
21% |
|
Menard |
(D-Fall River) |
15% |
|
Montigny |
(D-New Bedford) |
14% |
|
Moore |
(D-Uxbridge) |
30% |
|
Morrissey |
(D-Quincy) |
36% |
|
Murray |
(D-Plymouth) |
* |
|
O'Leary |
(D-Barnstable) |
21% |
|
Pacheco |
(D-Taunton) |
14% |
|
Panagiotakos |
(D-Lowell) |
21% |
|
Petruccelli |
(D-Boston) |
17% |
|
Resor |
(D-Acton) |
8% |
|
Rosenberg |
(D-Amherst) |
15% |
|
Spilka |
(D-Ashland) |
21% |
|
Tarr |
(R-Gloucester) |
93% |
|
Timilty |
(D-Walpole) |
50% |
|
Tisei |
(R-Wakefield) |
93% |
|
Tolman |
(D-Boston) |
15% |
|
Tucker |
(D-Andover) |
29% |
|
Walsh |
(D-Boston) |
0% |
|
Wilkerson |
(D-Boston) |
15% |
| |
|
|
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*
Senate President Therese Murray usually refrains from
voting. |
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HOUSE MEMBERS RATING |
|
REPRESENTATIVE |
PARTY-CITY/TOWN |
RATING |
|
|
|
|
|
Aguiar |
(D-Fall River) |
29% |
|
Alicea |
(D-Charlton) |
31% |
|
Allen |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Atkins |
(D-Concord) |
7% |
|
Atsalis |
(D-Barnstable) |
31% |
|
Ayers |
(D-Quincy) |
19% |
|
Balser |
(D-Newton) |
6% |
|
Barrows |
(R-Foxboro) |
94% |
|
Basile |
(D-Boston) |
11% |
|
Binienda |
(D-Worcester) |
19% |
|
Bosley |
(D-North Adams) |
13% |
|
Bradley |
(D-Hingham) |
13% |
|
Brownsberger |
(D-Belmont) |
13% |
|
Cabral |
(D-New Bedford) |
13% |
|
Callahan |
(D-Sutton) |
19% |
|
Calter |
(D-Kingston) |
25% |
|
Campbell |
(D-Methuen) |
13% |
|
Canavan |
(D-Brockton) |
16% |
|
Canessa |
(D-New Bedford) |
25% |
|
Casey |
(D-Winchester) |
38% |
|
Clark |
(D-Melrose) |
14% |
|
Coakley-Rivera |
(D-Springfield) |
6% |
|
Conroy |
(D-Wayland) |
13% |
|
Costello |
(D-Newburyport) |
25% |
|
Creedon |
(D-Brockton) |
19% |
|
Curran |
(D-Springfield) |
26% |
|
D'Amico |
(D-Seekonk) |
25% |
|
DeLeo |
(D-Winthrop) |
13% |
|
deMacedo |
(R-Plymouth) |
94% |
|
Dempsey |
(D-Haverhill) |
25% |
|
DiMasi |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
DiNatale |
(D-Fitchburg) |
31% |
|
Donato |
(D-Medford) |
13% |
|
Donelan |
(D-Orange) |
19% |
|
Driscoll |
(D-Braintree) |
39% |
|
Ehrlich |
(D-Marblehead) |
14% |
|
Eldridge |
(D-Acton) |
13% |
|
Evangelidis |
(R-Holden) |
94% |
|
Fagan |
(D-Taunton) |
25% |
|
Fallon |
(D-Malden) |
20% |
|
Falzone |
(D-Saugus) |
22% |
|
Fennell |
(D-Lynn) |
13% |
|
Fernandes |
(D-Milford) |
13% |
|
Finegold |
(D-Andover) |
13% |
|
Flanagan |
(D-Leominster) |
31% |
|
Flynn |
(D-Bridgewater) |
27% |
|
Forry |
(D-Boston) |
14% |
|
Fox |
(D-Boston) |
6% |
|
Fresolo |
(D-Worcester) |
31% |
|
Frost |
(R-Auburn) |
94% |
|
Galvin |
(D-Canton) |
19% |
|
Garballey |
(D-Arlington) |
0% |
|
Garry |
(D-Dracut) |
56% |
|
Gifford |
(R-Wareham) |
94% |
|
Gobi |
(D-Spencer) |
31% |
|
Golden |
(D-Lowell) |
32% |
|
Grant |
(D-Beverly) |
6% |
|
Greene |
(D-Billerica) |
44% |
|
Guyer |
(D-Dalton) |
19% |
|
Haddad |
(D-Somerset) |
13% |
|
Hall |
(D-Westford) |
25% |
|
Hargraves |
(R-Groton) |
94% |
|
Harkins |
(D-Needham) |
13% |
|
Hill |
(R-Ipswich) |
94% |
|
Honan |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Humason |
(R-Westfield) |
94% |
|
Hynes |
(D-Marshfield) |
38% |
|
Jones |
(R-North Reading) |
94% |
|
Kafka |
(D-Stoughton) |
13% |
|
Kane |
(D-Holyoke) |
13% |
|
Kaufman |
(D-Lexington) |
13% |
|
Keenan, J |
(D-Salem) |
13% |
|
Kennedy |
(D-Brockton) |
7% |
|
Khan |
(D-Newton) |
7% |
|
Kocot |
(D-Northampton) |
19% |
|
Koczera |
(D-New Bedford) |
25% |
|
Koutoujian |
(D-Waltham) |
13% |
|
Kujawski |
(D-Webster) |
38% |
|
Kulik |
(D-Worthington) |
13% |
|
Lantigua |
(D-Lawrence) |
13% |
|
Lepper |
(R-Attleboro) |
90% |
|
Linsky |
(D-Natick) |
13% |
|
L'Italien |
(D-Andover) |
19% |
|
Loscocco |
(R-Holliston) |
90% |
|
Malia |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Mariano |
(D-Quincy) |
13% |
|
McCarthy |
(D-East Bridgewater) |
13% |
|
McMutry |
(D-Dedham) |
8% |
|
Miceli |
(D-Wilmington) |
25% |
|
Moran |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Murphy, C |
(D-Burlington) |
21% |
|
Murphy, J |
(D-Weymouth) |
13% |
|
Murphy, K |
(D-Lowell) |
19% |
|
Nangle |
(D-Lowell) |
26% |
|
Natale |
(D-Woburn) |
32% |
|
Naughton |
(D-Clinton) |
23% |
|
Nyman |
(D-Hanover) |
31% |
|
O'Day |
(D-West Boylston) |
31% |
|
O'Flaherty |
(D-Chelsea) |
13% |
|
Patrick |
(D-Falmouth) |
13% |
|
Peake |
(D-Provincetown) |
13% |
|
Pedone |
(D-Worcester) |
13% |
|
Peisch |
(D-Wellesley) |
19% |
|
Perry |
(R-Sandwich) |
94% |
|
Peterson |
(R-Grafton) |
94% |
|
Petrolati |
(D-Ludlow) |
23% |
|
Pignatelli |
(D-Lenox) |
38% |
|
Poirier |
(R-North Attleboro) |
97% |
|
Polito |
(R-Shrewsbury) |
94% |
|
Provost |
(D-Somerville) |
25% |
|
Puppolo |
(D-Springfield) |
19% |
|
Quinn |
(D-Dartmouth) |
25% |
|
Reinstein |
(D-Revere) |
7% |
|
Rice |
(D-Gardner) |
32% |
|
Richardson |
(D-Framingham) |
13% |
|
Rodrigues |
(D-Westport) |
44% |
|
Rogeness |
(R-Longmeadow) |
90% |
|
Rogers |
(D-Norwood) |
13% |
|
Ross |
(R-Wrentham) |
94% |
|
Rush |
(D-Boston) |
7% |
|
Rushing |
(D-Boston) |
6% |
|
Sanchez |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Sandlin |
(D-Agawam) |
26% |
|
Sannicandro |
(D-Ashland) |
7% |
|
Scaccia |
(D-Boston) |
7% |
|
Scibak |
(D-South Hadley) |
19% |
|
Sciortino |
(D-Medford) |
13% |
|
Smith |
(D-Everett) |
13% |
|
Smizik |
(D-Brookline) |
6% |
|
Smola |
(R-Palmer) |
94% |
|
Speliotis |
(D-Danvers) |
13% |
|
Spellane |
(D-Worcester) |
19% |
|
Speranzo |
(D-Pittsfield) |
19% |
|
Spiliotis |
(D-Peabody) |
38% |
|
St. Fleur |
(D-Boston) |
7% |
|
Stanley, H |
(D-West Newbury) |
28% |
|
Stanley, T |
(D-Waltham) |
25% |
|
Story |
(D-Amherst) |
6% |
|
Straus |
(D-Mattapoisett) |
19% |
|
Sullivan |
(D-Fall River) |
25% |
|
Swan |
(D-Springfield) |
13% |
|
Timility |
(D-Milton) |
13% |
|
Tobin |
(D-Quincy) |
19% |
|
Toomey |
(D-Cambridge) |
13% |
|
Torrisi |
(D-North Andover) |
39% |
|
Turkington |
(D-Falmouth) |
13% |
|
Turner |
(D-Dennis) |
32% |
|
Vallee |
(D-Franklin) |
19% |
|
Verga |
(D-Gloucester) |
19% |
|
Wagner |
(D-Chicopee) |
22% |
|
Wallace |
(D-Boston) |
13% |
|
Walrath |
(D-Stow) |
13% |
|
Walsh, M |
(D-Boston) |
6% |
|
Walsh, S |
(D-Lynn) |
13% |
|
Walz |
(D-Boston) |
7% |
|
Webster |
(R-Hanson) |
94% |
|
Welch |
(D-West Springfield) |
19% |
|
Wolf |
(D-Cambridge) |
13% |
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