How your current Mass. State Senators and State Representatives voted in 2004 - on bill to take away the Governor's power to appoint a US Senator in case of a vacancy

Posted Sept 7, 2009

Votes take into consideration both the original votes in Senate and House to pass the bill and votes to override Gov. Romney's veto of bill. Except for a few cases noted, all of them either voted the same both times. If they were absent for one of the votes, we count the vote they were present.

From the State House website:
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Current State Senators who voted YES in 2004

**NOTE: Senators Buoniconti, Candaras, Eldridge, Jehlen, Kennedy, Petruccelli, and Spilka voted YES as State Representaves in 2004. One Republican, Tisei, voted YES.

Steven Baddour (D-Methuen)
Frederick Berry (D-Peabody)
Stephen Brewer (D-Barre)
Stephen Buoniconti (D-West Springfield)**
Gale Candaras (D-Wilbraham)**
Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester)
Cynthia Creem (D-Newton)
James Eldridge (D-Acton)**
Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln)
Jack Hart (D-South Boston)
Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville)**
Brian Joyce (D-Milton)
Thomas Kennedy (D-Brockton)**
Thomas McGee (D-Lynn)
Joan Menard (D-Somerset)
Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford)
Richard Moore (D-Uxbridge)
Michael Morrissey (D-North Quincy)
Therese Murray (D-Plymouth)
Robert O'Leary (D-Barnstable)
Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton)
Steven Panagiotakos (D-Lowell)
Anthony Petruccelli (D-East Boston)**
Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst)
Karen Spilka (D-Ashland)**
Richard Tisei (R-Wakefield)
Steven Tolman (D-Brighton)
Susan Tucker (D-Andover)
Marian Walsh (D-West Roxbury

Current State Senators who voted NO in 2004

Scott Brown (R-Wrentham)
Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth)
Michael Knapik (R-Westfield)
Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester)

Current State Representatives who voted YES in 2004

Cory Atkins (D-Concord)
Bruce Ayers (D-Quincy)
Ruth Balser (D-Newton)
John Binienda (D-Worcester)
Daniel Bosley (D-North Adams)
Garrett Bradley (D-Hingham)
Antonio Cabral (D-New Bedford)
Jennifer Callahan (D-Sutton)
Christine Canavan (D-Brockton)
Cheryl Coakley-Rivera (D-Springfield)
Michael Costello (D-Newburyport)
Geraldine Creedon (D-Brockton)
Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop)
Brian Dempsey (D-Haverhill)
Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Christopher Donelan (D-Orange)
Joseph Driscoll (D-Braintree)
James Fagan (D-Taunton)
Mark Falzone (D-Saugus)
Robert Fennell (D-Lynn)
Barry Finegold (D-Andover)
Gloria Fox (D-Roxbury)
John Fresolo (D-Worcester)
William Galvin (D-Canton)
Colleen Garry (D-Dracut)
Anne Gobi (D-Spencer)
Thomas Golden (D-Lowell)
Mary Grant (D-Beverly)
William Greene (D-Billerica)
Patricia Haddad (D-Somerset)
Lida Harkins (D-Needham)
Kevin Honan (D-Brighton)
Louis Kafka (D-Stoughton)
Michael Kane (D-Holyoke)
Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington)
Kay Khan (D-Newton)
Peter Kocot (D-Northampton)
Robert Koczera (D-New Bedford)
Peter Koutoujian (D-Waltham)
Paul Kujawski (D-Webster)
Stephen Kulik (D-Worthington)
William Lantigua (D-Lawrence)
David Linsky (D-Natick)
Elizabeth Malia (D-Boston)
Ronald Mariano (D-Quincy)
James Miceli (D-Wilmington )
Charles Murphy (D-Burlington)
James Murphy (D-Weymouth)
Kevin Murphy (D-Lowell)
David Nangle (D-Lowell)
Harold Naughton (D-Clinton)
Robert Nyman (D-Hanover)
Eugene O'Flaherty (D-Chelsea)
Matthew Patrick (D-Falmouth)
Vincent Pedone (D-Worcester)
Thomas Petrolati (D-Ludlow)
John Quinn (D-Dartmouth)
Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D-Revere)
Michael Rodrigues (D-Westport)
John Rogers (D-Norwood)
Michael Rush (D-Boston)
Byron Rushing (D-Boston)
Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Boston)
Angelo Scaccia (D-Readville)
John Scibak (D-South Hadley)
Frank Israel Smizik (D-Brookline)
Theodore Speliotis (D-Danvers)
Robert Spellane (D-Worcester)
Joyce Spiliotis (D-Peabody)
Marie St. Fleur (D-Dorchester)
Thomas Stanley (D-Waltham )
Ellen Story (D-Amherst)
William Straus (D-Mattapoisett)
David Sullivan (D-Fall River)
Benjamin Swan (D-Springfield)
Walter Timilty (D-Milton)
Stephen Tobin (D-Quincy)
Timothy Toomey (D-Cambridge)
David Torrisi (D-North Andover)
James Vallee (D-Franklin)
Joseph Wagner (D-Chicopee)
Brian Wallace (D-Boston)
Martin Walsh (D-Dorchester)
Steven Walsh (D-Lynn)
Alice Wolf (D-Cambridge

Current State Representatives who voted NO in 2004

NOTE: Representatives Flynn and Fallon voted YES to pass the bill but changed their votes to NO to override Gov. Romney's veto. All Republicans and several Democrats voted NO.

Demetrius Atsalis (D-Barnstable)
Vinny deMacedo (R-Plymouth)
Lewis Evangelidis (R-Holden)
Christopher Fallon (D-Malden)**
David Flynn (D-Bridgewater)**
Paul Frost (R-Auburn)
Susan Gifford (R-Wareham)
Robert Hargraves (R-Groton )
Brad Hill (R-Ipswich)
Donald Humason (R-Westfield)
Brad Jones (R-North Reading )
Barbara L'Italien (D-Andover)
Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley)
Jeffrey Perry (R-Sandwich)
George Peterson (R-Grafton)
Smitty Pignatelli (D-Lenox)
Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleborough)
Karyn Polito (R-Shrewsbury)
Harriett Stanley (D-West Newbury)
Daniel Webster (R-Pembroke)