Rating Group: Massachusetts SPCA

1999-2010 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 92%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 92%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 92%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MA State House-First Barnstable Cleon Turner D 0%
MA State House-Fourth Barnstable Sarah Peake D 50%
MA State House-Fourth Berkshire William Pignatelli D 50%
MA State House-First Bristol Jay Barrows R 0%
MA State House-Fifth Bristol Patricia Haddad D 20%
MA State House-Tenth Bristol William Straus D 18%
MA State House-Eleventh Bristol Robert Koczera D 10%
MA State House-Thirteenth Bristol Antonio Cabral D 44%
MA State House-Fourteenth Bristol Elizabeth Poirier R 11%
MA State House-First Essex Michael Costello D 50%
MA State House-Third Essex Brian Dempsey D 25%
MA State House-Fourth Essex Bradford Hill R 30%
MA State House-Fifth Essex Ann-Margaret Ferrante D 100%
MA State House-Seventh Essex John Keenan, Jr. D 33%
MA State House-Eighth Essex Lori Ehrlich D 75%
MA State House-Tenth Essex Robert Fennell D 0%
MA State House-Eleventh Essex Steven Walsh D 0%
MA State House-Thirteenth Essex Theodore Speliotis D 55%
MA State House-Fifteenth Essex Linda Campbell D 100%
MA State House-First Franklin Stephen Kulik D 27%
MA State House-First Hampden Todd Smola R 75%
MA State House-Fourth Hampden Don Humason, Jr. R 25%
MA State House-Seventh Hampden Thomas Petrolati D 56%
MA State House-Eighth Hampden Joseph Wagner D 22%
MA State House-Ninth Hampden Sean Curran D 50%
MA State House-Tenth Hampden Cheryl Coakley-Rivera D 92%
MA State House-Eleventh Hampden Benjamin Swan, Sr. D 50%
MA State House-Twelfth Hampden Angelo Puppolo, Jr. D 0%
MA State House-First Hampshire Peter Kocot D 75%
MA State House-Second Hampshire John Scibak D 43%
MA State House-Third Hampshire Ellen Story D 75%
MA State House-Third Middlesex Kate Hogan D 100%
MA State House-Fifth Middlesex David Linsky D 100%
MA State House-Seventh Middlesex Tom Sannicandro D 75%
MA State House-Eighth Middlesex Carolyn Dykema D 100%
MA State House-Ninth Middlesex Thomas Stanley D 17%
MA State House-Eleventh Middlesex Kay Khan D 91%
MA State House-Twelfth Middlesex Ruth Balser D 91%
MA State House-Thirteenth Middlesex Thomas Conroy D 100%
MA State House-Fourteenth Middlesex Cory Atkins D 82%
MA State House-Fifteenth Middlesex Jay Kaufman D 83%
MA State House-Sixteenth Middlesex Thomas Golden, Jr. D 29%
MA State House-Seventeenth Middlesex David Nangle D 33%
MA State House-Eighteenth Middlesex Kevin Murphy D 11%
MA State House-Nineteenth Middlesex James Miceli D 22%
MA State House-Twentieth Middlesex Bradley Jones, Jr. R 22%
MA State House-Twenty-Third Middlesex Sean Garballey D 50%
MA State House-Twenty-Sixth Middlesex Timothy Toomey, Jr. D 83%
MA State House-Twenty-Seventh Middlesex Denise Provost D 100%
MA State House-Thirtieth Middlesex James Dwyer D 100%
MA State House-Thirty-Third Middlesex Christopher Fallon D 33%
MA State House-Thirty-Fourth Middlesex Carl Sciortino, Jr. D 100%
MA State House-Thirty-Fifth Middlesex Paul Donato, Sr. D 20%
MA State House-Thirty-Sixth Middlesex Colleen Garry D 27%
MA State House-Thirty-Seventh Middlesex Jen Benson D 100%
MA State House-First Norfolk Bruce Ayers D 67%
MA State House-Third Norfolk Ronald Mariano D 22%
MA State House-Fourth Norfolk James Murphy D 50%
MA State House-Sixth Norfolk William Galvin D 71%
MA State House-Seventh Norfolk Walter Timilty D 50%
MA State House-Eighth Norfolk Louis Kafka D 75%
MA State House-Eleventh Norfolk Paul McMurtry D 67%
MA State House-Twelfth Norfolk John Rogers D 50%
MA State House-Fourteenth Norfolk Alice Peisch D 67%
MA State House-Fifteenth Norfolk Frank Smizik D 100%
MA State House-First Plymouth Vinny deMacedo R 13%
MA State House-Second Plymouth Susan Gifford R 33%
MA State House-Third Plymouth Garrett Bradley D 67%
MA State House-Fourth Plymouth James Cantwell D 100%
MA State House-Ninth Plymouth Michael Brady D 100%
MA State House-Tenth Plymouth Christine Canavan D 36%
MA State House-Twelfth Plymouth Tom Calter III D 0%
MA State House-First Suffolk Carlo Basile D 0%
MA State House-Second Suffolk Eugene O'Flaherty D 75%
MA State House-Seventh Suffolk Gloria Fox D 89%
MA State House-Ninth Suffolk Byron Rushing D 90%
MA State House-Eleventh Suffolk Elizabeth Malia D 100%
MA State House-Twelfth Suffolk Linda Forry D 33%
MA State House-Thirteenth Suffolk Martin Walsh D 44%
MA State House-Fourteenth Suffolk Angelo Scaccia D 56%
MA State House-Fifteenth Suffolk Jeffrey Sánchez D 50%
MA State House-Sixteenth Suffolk Kathi-Anne Reinstein D 38%
MA State House-Seventeenth Suffolk Kevin Honan D 60%
MA State House-Eighteenth Suffolk Michael Moran D 67%
MA State House-Nineteenth Suffolk Robert DeLeo D 44%
MA State House-Third Worcester Stephen DiNatale D 25%
MA State House-Fifth Worcester Anne Gobi D 46%
MA State House-Seventh Worcester Paul Frost R 27%
MA State House-Ninth Worcester George Peterson, Jr. R 8%
MA State House-Tenth Worcester John Fernandes D 0%
MA State House-Twelfth Worcester Harold Naughton, Jr. D 13%
MA State House-Fourteenth Worcester James O'Day D 0%
MA State House-Sixteenth Worcester John Fresolo D 31%
MA State House-Seventeenth Worcester John Binienda, Sr. D 0%
MA State Senate-Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Benjamin Downing D 50%
MA State Senate-Bristol and Norfolk James Timilty D 0%
MA State Senate-First Bristol and Plymouth Michael Rodrigues D 40%
MA State Senate-Second Bristol and Plymouth Mark Montigny D 75%
MA State Senate-Third Essex Thomas McGee D 0%
MA State Senate-First Essex and Middlesex Bruce Tarr R 50%
MA State Senate-Second Essex and Middlesex Barry Finegold D 56%
MA State Senate-Hampden James Welch D 50%
MA State Senate-First Hampden and Hampshire Gale Candaras D 50%
MA State Senate-Second Hampden and Hampshire Michael Knapik R 0%
MA State Senate-Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester Stan Rosenberg D 50%
MA State Senate-Second Middlesex Pat Jehlen D 86%
MA State Senate-Fourth Middlesex Kenneth Donnelly D 0%
MA State Senate-Fifth Middlesex Katherine Clark D 67%
MA State Senate-First Middlesex and Norfolk Cindy Creem D 67%
MA State Senate-Second Middlesex and Norfolk Karen Spilka D 67%
MA State Senate-Middlesex and Worcester James Eldridge D 71%
MA State Senate-Norfolk and Suffolk Mike Rush D 50%
MA State Senate-Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex Richard Ross R 50%
MA State Senate-Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth Brian Joyce D 0%
MA State Senate-Plymouth and Barnstable Therese Murray D 0%
MA State Senate-First Plymouth and Bristol Marc Pacheco D 67%
MA State Senate-Second Plymouth and Bristol Thomas Kennedy D 43%
MA State Senate-Plymouth and Norfolk Robert Hedlund, Jr. R 86%
MA State Senate-Second Suffolk Sonia Chang-Diaz D 0%
MA State Senate-First Suffolk and Middlesex Anthony Petruccelli D 33%
MA State Senate-Second Suffolk and Middlesex William Brownsberger D 100%
MA State Senate-First Worcester Harriette Chandler D 0%
MA State Senate-Second Worcester Mike Moore D 0%
MA State Senate-Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex Stephen Brewer D 29%
MA State Senate-Worcester and Middlesex Jennifer Flanagan D 0%
MA State Senate-Worcester and Norfolk Richard Moore D 50%
MA Mayor-At-Large William Lantigua Other 50%
MA Councilor-At-Large Thomas Stanley Other 17%
MA Councilmember-At-Large Timothy Toomey, Jr. Other 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
Kevin Aguiar Other 50%
Geraldo Alicea Other 0%
Willie Mae Allen Other 0%
Demetrius Atsalis Other 0%
Steven Baddour Other 25%
Frederick Berry Other 0%
Daniel Bosley Other 25%
Bill Bowles Other 100%
Scott Brown Other 67%
Stephen Buoniconti Other 25%
Jennifer Callahan Other 100%
Stephen Canessa Other 33%
Geraldine Creedon Other 11%
Steven D'Amico Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Christopher Donelan Other 50%
Joseph Driscoll, Jr. Other 50%
Lewis Evangelidis Other 0%
James Fagan Other 0%
Mark Falzone Other 17%
Susan Fargo Other 75%
David Flynn Other 11%
Barney Frank Other 92%
Anthony Galluccio Other 67%
Mary Grant Other 50%
William Greene, Jr. Other 17%
Denis Guyer Other 33%
Robert Hargraves Other 11%
Lida Harkins Other 73%
John Hart, Jr. Other 33%
Michael Kane Other 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 83%
Peter Koutoujian Other 62%
Paul Kujawski Other 0%
Brian Lees Other 0%
Barbara L'Italien Other 75%
Allen McCarthy Other 0%
Joan Menard Other 0%
Michael Morrissey Other 33%
Charles Murphy Other 22%
Robert Nyman Other 18%
Robert O'Leary Other 0%
John Olver Other 100%
Steven Panagiotakos Other 0%
Matthew Patrick Other 43%
Vincent Pedone Other 17%
Jeff Perry Other 0%
Karyn Polito Other 60%
John Quinn Other 0%
Robert Rice Other 33%
Pamela Richardson Other 67%
Rosemary Sandlin Other 0%
Stat Smith Other 0%
Robert Spellane Other 33%
Christopher Speranzo Other 50%
Joyce Spiliotis Other 0%
Harriett Stanley Other 67%
Marie St. Fleur Other 78%
David Sullivan Other 9%
Richard Tisei Other 50%
Stephen Tobin Other 13%
Steven Tolman Other 33%
David Torrisi Other 10%
Susan Tucker Other 100%
Jim Vallee Other 33%
Brian Wallace Other 0%
Marian Walsh Other 67%
Martha Walz Other 67%
Daniel Webster Other 0%
Alice Wolf Other 91%

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