August 3, 2008
How they voted
Michael Wood READ TIME: 4 MIN.
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)
Michael Wood is a contributor and Editorial Assistant for EDGE Publications.