How they voted

by Max Gelber

Bay Windows

Sunday August 3, 2008

The bill to repeal the 1913 law passed on a roll call vote of 119 to 36, with three House members not voting. Here is how the members voted. Names in bold indicate lawmakers who voted in a way that contrasted with how they voted on the anti-gay marriage amendment at the June 2007 constitutional convention.

YES

Kevin Aguiar (D - Fall River)

Geraldo Alicea (D - Charlton)

Willie Mae Allen (D - Mattapan)

Cory Atkins (D - Concord)

Demetrius J. Atsalis (D - Barnstable)

Ruth B. Balser (D - Newton)

Carlo P. Basile (D - East Boston)

Daniel E. Bosley (D - North Adams)

Garrett J. Bradley (D - Hingham)

William N. Brownsberger (D - Belmont)

Antonio F.D. Cabral (D - New Bedford)

Jennifer M. Callahan (D - Sutton)

Thomas J. Calter (D - Kingston)

Linda Dean Campell (D - Methuen)

Christine E. Canavan (D - Brockton)

Stephen R. Canessa (D - Freetown)

Katherine Clark (D - Melrose)

Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera (D - Springfield)

Thomas P. Conroy (D - Wayland)

Michael A. Costello (D - Newburyport)

Sean Curran (D- Springfield)

Steven J. D'Amico (D - Seekonk)

Robert A. DeLeo (D - Revere)

Brian S. Dempsey (D - Haverhill)

Salvatore F. Dimasi (D - Boston)

Stephen L. DiNatale (D - Fitchburg)

Paul J. Donato (D - Medford)

Christopher J. Donelan (D - Orange)

Lori A. Ehrlich (D - Wenham Lake)

James B. Eldridge (D - Worcester)

Christopher G. Fallon (D - Malden)

Mark V. Falzone (D - Saugus)

Robert F. Fennell (D - Lynn)

John V. Fernandez (D - Milford)

Barry R. Finegold (D - Andover)

Jennifer L. Flanagan (D - Leominster)

Linda Dorcena Forry (D - Dorchester)

Gloria L. Fox (D - Boston)

William C. Galvin (D - Canton)

Sean Garballey (D - Arlington)

Anne M. Gobi (D - Spencer)

Thomas A. Golden Jr. (D - Lowell)

Mary E. Grant (D - Beverly)

Dennis E. Guyer (D - Dalton)

Patricia A. Haddad (D - Somerset)

Geoffery D. Hall (D - Littleton-Westford)

Lida E. Harkins (D - Needham)

Bradford Hill (R - Ipswich)

Kevin G. Honan (D- Brighton)

Bradley H. Jones Jr. (R - North Reading)

Louis L. Kafka (D - Stoughton)

Jay R. Kaufman (D - Lexington)

John D. Keenan (D - Salem)

Thomas P. Kennedy (D - Brockton)

Kay Khan (D - Newton)

Peter V. Kocot (D - Northampton)

Robert M. Koczera (D - New Bedford)

Peter J. Koutoujian (D - Newton)

Paul Kujawski (D - Webster)

Stephen Kulik (D - South Deerfield)

David Paul Linsky (D - Natick)

Barbara A. L'Italien (D - Andover)

Paul J. Loscocco (R - Holliston)

Elizabeth A. Malia (D - Boston)

Ronald Mariano (D - Quincy)

Allen J. McCarthy (D - East Bridgewater)

Paul McMurtry (D - Dedham)

Michael J. Moran (D - Boston)

Charles A. Murphy (D - Burlington)

Kevin J. Murphy (D - Lowell)

David M. Nangle (D - Lowell)

Harold P. Naughton (D - Clinton)

Robert J. Nyman (D - Rockland)

James J. O'Day (D - West Boylston)

Eugene L. O'Flaherty (D - Malden)

Matthew Patrick (D - Falmouth)

Sarah K. Peake (D - Provincetown)

Vincent A. Pedone (D - Worcester)

Alice Hanlon Peisch (D - Wellesley)

Jeffrey D. Perry (R -Sandwich)

Denise Provost (D - Somerville)

John F. Quinn (D - New Bedford)

Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D - Revere)

Robert L. Rice Jr. (D - Gardner)

Pam Richardson (D - Framington)

Michael J. Rodrigues (D - Westport)

John H. Rogers (D - Norwood)

Richard J. Ross (R - Wrentham)

Byron Rushing (D - Roxbury)

Jeffery Sanchez (D - Brookline)

Rosemary Sandlin (D - Agawam)

Tom Sannicandro (D - Ashland)

John W. Scibak (D - South Hadley)

Carl M. Sciortino Jr. (D - Middlesex)

Stephen Stat Smith (D - Everett)

Frank Israel Smizik (D - Brookline)

Theodore C. Speliotis (D - Peabody)

Robert P. Spellane (D - Worcester)

Christopher N. Speranzo (D - Pittsfield)

Joyce A. Spiliotis (D - Peabody)

Marie P. St. Fleur (D - Boston)

Thomas M. Stanley (D - Waltham)

Ellen Story (D - Amherst)

William M. Straus (D - Mattapoisett)

David B. Sullivan (D - Fall River)

Benjamin Swan (D - Springfield)

Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (D - Cambridge)

David M. Torrisi (D - North Andover)

Eric Turkington (D - Falmouth)

Cleon H. Turner (D - Barnstable)

James E. Vallee (D - Franklin)

Anthony J. Verga (D - Gloucester)

Brian P Wallace (D - South Boston)

Patricia A. Walrath (D - Stow)

Martin J. Walsh (D - Dorchester)

Steven M. Walsh (D - Lynn)

Martha M. Walz (D - Boston)

James T. Welch (D - West Springfield)

Alice K. Wolf (D- Cambridge)

NO

Bruce J. Ayers (D - North Quincy)

F. Jay Barrows (R - Mansfield)

John J. Binienda (D - Worcester)

Paul C. Casey (D - Winchester)

Geraldine Creedon (D - Brockton)

Viriato Manuel deMacedo (R - Plymouth)

Joseph R. Driscoll (D - Braintree)

Lewis G. Evangelidis (R - Holden)

James H. Fagan (D - Taunton)

David L. Flynn (D - Bridgewater)

John P. Fresolo (D - Worcester)

Paul K. Frost (R - Auburn)

Colleen M. Garry (D - Lowell)

Susan Williams Gifford (R - Wareham)

William G. Greene Jr. (D - Billerica)

Robert S. Hargraves (R - Groton)

Donald F. Humason Jr. (R - Westfield)

Frank M. Hynes (D - Marshfield)

Michael F. Kane (D - Holyoke)

William Lantigua (D - Lawrence)

John A. Leeper (R - Attleboro)

James R. Miceli (D - Wilmington)

James M. Murphy (D - Weymouth)

George N. Peterson Jr. (R - Grafton)

Thomas M. Petrolati (D - Ludlow)

Elizabeth A. Poirier (R - North Attleboro)

Karyn E. Polito (R -Shrewsbury)

Angelo J. Puppolo Jr. (D - Wilbraham)

Mary S Rogeness (R - Longmeadow)

Michael F. Rush (D - West Roxbury)

Angelo M. Scaccia (D - Readville)

Todd M. Smola (R - Hampden)

Walter F. Timilty (D - Milton)

A. Stephen Tobin (D - Quincy)

Joseph E. Wagner (D - Chicopee)

Daniel K. Webster (R -Hanson)

NOT VOTING

Patrick M. Natale (D - Woburn)

William Smitty Pignatelli (D - Lenox)

Harriett L. Stanley (D - Merrimac)

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