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How your current Mass. State Senators and State Representatives voted on "Kennedy bill" in 2009

Bill to reverse 2004 law and give the Governor's power to appoint a US Senator in case of a vacancy until special election takes place

Posted Sept 23, 2009

A YES vote is to change the law, seen by many as hypocritical.

Here's how the current legislators voted in 2004 -- to originally change the law.

How to contact the Senators and Representatives (from the State House website):
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Senate vote -- Sept. 22    (YES: 24  NO: 16)


Voted YES:

 

Frederick Berry (D-Peabody)
Stephen Buoniconti (D-West Springfield)
Gale Candaras (D-Wilbraham)
Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester)
Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Boston)
Cynthia Creem (D-Newton)
Kenneth Donnelly (D-Arlington)
Benjamin Downing (D-Pittsfield)
James Eldridge (D-Acton)
Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln)
Anthony Galluccio (D-Cambridge)
Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville)

Thomas Kennedy (D-Brockton)
Thomas McGee (D-Lynn)
Joan Menard (D-Somerset)
Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford)
Therese Murray (D-Plymouth)
Robert O'Leary (D-Barnstable)
Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton)
Anthony Petruccelli (D-East Boston)
Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst)
Karen Spilka (D-Ashland)
Steven Tolman (D-Brighton)
Marian Walsh (D-West Roxbury)


Voted NO:

 

Steven Baddour (D-Methuen)
Stephen Brewer (D-Barre)
Scott Brown (R-Wrentham)
Jennifer Flanagan (D-Leominster)
Jack Hart (D-South Boston)
Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth)
Brian Joyce (D-Milton)
Michael Knapik (R-Westfield)

Michael Moore (D-Millbury)
Richard Moore (D-Uxbridge)
Michael Morrissey (D-North Quincy)
Steven Panagiotakos (D-Lowell)
Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester)
James Timilty (D-Walpole)
Richard Tisei (R-Wakefield)
Susan Tucker (D-Andover)


House vote -- Sept. 17    (Yes: 95  No: 59: Not voting: 6)


Voted YES:

 

Kevin Aguiar (D-Fall River)
Geraldo Alicea (D-Charlton)
Willie Mae Allen (D-Boston)
Cory Atkins (D-Concord)
Demetrius Atsalis (D-Barnstable)
Ruth Balser (D-Newton)
Carlo Basile (D-Boston)
Jennifer Benson (D-Lunenburg)
Daniel Bosley (D-North Adams)
Bill Bowles (D-Attleboro)
Garrett Bradley (D-Hingham)
Michael Brady (D-Brockton)
William Brownsberger (D-Belmont)
Antonio Cabral (D-New Bedford)
Katherine Clark (D-Melrose)
Cheryl Coakley-Rivera (D-Springfield)
Thomas Conroy (D-Wayland)
Michael Costello (D-Newburyport)
Geraldine Creedon (D-Brockton)
Steven D'Amico (D-Seekonk)
Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop)
Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Christopher Donelan (D-Orange)
Joseph Driscoll (D-Braintree)
Mark Falzone (D-Saugus)
Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D-Gloucester)
Barry Finegold (D-Andover)
David Flynn (D-Bridgewater)
Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester)
Gloria Fox (D-Roxbury)
William Galvin (D-Canton)
Sean Garballey (D-Arlington)
Colleen Garry (D-Dracut)
Thomas Golden (D-Lowell)
Mary Grant (D-Beverly)
Danielle Gregoire (D-Marlborough)
Denis Guyer (D-Dalton)
Patricia Haddad (D-Somerset)
Jonathan Hecht (D-Watertown)
Kate Hogan (D-Stow)
Kevin Honan (D-Brighton)
Louis Kafka (D-Stoughton)
Michael Kane (D-Holyoke)
John Keenan (D-Salem)
Kay Khan (D-Newton)
Peter Kocot (D-Northampton)
Robert Koczera (D-New Bedford)
Peter Koutoujian (D-Waltham)

Stephen Kulik (D-Worthington)
William Lantigua (D-Lawrence)
Jason Lewis (D-Winchester)
David Linsky (D-Natick)
Barbara L'Italien (D-Andover)
Timothy Madden (D-Nantucket)
Elizabeth Malia (D-Boston)
Ronald Mariano (D-Quincy)
Aaron Michlewitz (D-Boston)
Michael Moran (D-Boston)
Charles Murphy (D-Burlington)
James Murphy (D-Weymouth)
Harold Naughton (D-Clinton)
James O'Day (D-West Boylston)
Eugene O'Flaherty (D-Chelsea)
Matthew Patrick (D-Falmouth)
Sarah Peake (D-Provincetown)
Vincent Pedone (D-Worcester)
Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley)
Thomas Petrolati (D-Ludlow)
Smitty Pignatelli (D-Lenox)
Denise Provost (D-Somerville)
Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D-Revere)
Robert Rice (D-Gardner)
Pam Richardson (D-Framingham)
Dennis Rosa (D-Leominster)
Byron Rushing (D-Boston)
Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Boston)
Tom Sannicandro (D-Ashland)
Angelo Scaccia (D-Readville)
John Scibak (D-South Hadley)
Carl Sciortino (D-Medford)
Stephen Stat Smith (D-Everett)
Frank Israel Smizik (D-Brookline)
Theodore Speliotis (D-Danvers)
Robert Spellane (D-Worcester)
Christopher Speranzo (D-Pittsfield)
Marie St. Fleur (D-Dorchester)
Ellen Story (D-Amherst)
David Sullivan (D-Fall River)
Timothy Toomey (D-Cambridge)
James Vallee (D-Franklin)
Martin Walsh (D-Dorchester)
Steven Walsh (D-Lynn)
Marty Walz (D-Boston)
James Welch (D-West Springfield)
Alice Wolf (D-Cambridge)


Voted NO:

 

James Arciero (D-Westford)
Brian Ashe (D-Longmeadow)
Bruce Ayers (D-Quincy)
Jay Barrows (R-Mansfield)
Jennifer Callahan (D-Sutton)
Thomas Calter (D-Kingston)
Linda Campbell (D-Methuen)
Christine Canavan (D-Brockton)
Stephen Canessa (D-New Bedford)
James Cantwell (D-Marshfield)
Sean Curran (D-Springfield)
Vinny deMacedo (R-Plymouth)
Brian Dempsey (D-Haverhill)
Stephen DiNatale (D-Fitchburg)
James Dwyer (D-Woburn)
Carolyn Dykema (D-Holliston)
Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead)
Lewis Evangelidis (R-Holden)
Christopher Fallon (D-Malden)
Robert Fennell (D-Lynn)
John Fernandes (D-Milford)
John Fresolo (D-Worcester)
Paul Frost (R-Auburn)
Susan Gifford (R-Wareham)
Anne Gobi (D-Spencer)
William Greene (D-Billerica)
Robert Hargraves (R-Groton )
Lida Harkins (D-Needham)
Brad Hill (R-Ipswich)
Donald Humason (R-Westfield)

Brad Jones (R-North Reading )
Paul Kujawski (D-Webster)
Allen McCarthy (D-East Bridgewater)
Paul McMurtry (U-Dedham)
James Miceli (D-Wilmington )
Kevin Murphy (D-Lowell)
David Nangle (D-Lowell)
Robert Nyman (D-Hanover)
Jeffrey Perry (R-Sandwich)
George Peterson (R-Grafton)
Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleborough)
Karyn Polito (R-Shrewsbury)
Angelo Puppolo (D-Springfield)
John Quinn (D-Dartmouth)
Michael Rodrigues (D-Westport)
John Rogers (D-Norwood)
Richard Ross (R-Wrentham)
Michael Rush (D-Boston)
Rosemary Sandlin (D-Agawam)
Todd Smola (R-Palmer)
Joyce Spiliotis (D-Peabody)
Thomas Stanley (D-Waltham )
William Straus (D-Mattapoisett)
Walter Timilty (D-Milton)
Stephen Tobin (D-Quincy)
David Torrisi (D-North Andover)
Cleon Turner (D-Dennis)
Joseph Wagner (D-Chicopee)
Daniel Webster (R-Pembroke)


Not voting:

 

John Binienda (D-Worcester)
James Fagan (D-Taunton)
Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington)

Harriett Stanley (D-West Newbury)
Benjamin Swan (D-Springfield)
Brian Wallace (D-Boston)