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2013-2014 Final Ratings (Co-)Sponsored in 2012 Signed Laura's Law (LL) Maria Talks Sex-selection Ban (SS) Responses to Candidate Questionnaire Letter in 2011 Position Determined Name PBA Ban (PBA) (Incumbents by other Data State Representative District Taxpayer Conscience (TC) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 only) Beginning of Life End of Life First Barnstable CLEON TURNER (D) No Anti-life Second Barnstable BRIAN R. MANNAL (D) N/A* Anti-life Third Barnstable DAVID T. VIEIRA (R) Yes Fourth Barnstable SARAH K. PEAKE (D) No Anti-life Fifth Barnstable RANDY HUNT (R) LL SS Yes Pro-life Pro-life Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket TIMOTHY R. MADDEN (D) No Anti-life First Berkshire GAILANNE M. CARIDDI (D) No Anti-life Second Berkshire PAUL W. MARK (D) No Anti-life Third Berkshire TRICIA FARLEY-BOUVIER (D) No Anti-life Fourth Berkshire WILLIAM "SMITTY" PIGNATELLI (D) Yes Anti-life Pro-life First Bristol FRED "JAY" BARROWS (R) LL SS PBA TP Yes Pro-life Second Bristol PAUL R. HEROUX (D) N/A* Anti-life Third Bristol SHAUNNA L. O'CONNELL (R) Yes Mixed Pro-life Fourth Bristol STEVEN S. HOWITT (R) Yes Mixed Fifth Bristol PATRICIA A. HADDAD (D) No Anti-life Sixth Bristol CAROLE A. FIOLA (D) N/A* Anti-life Seventh Bristol ALAN SILVIA (D) N/A* Pro-life Pro-life Eighth Bristol PAUL A SCHMID, III (D) No Anti-life Ninth Bristol CHRISTOPHER MARKEY (D) No Tenth Bristol WILLIAM M. STRAUS (D) No Anti-life Eleventh Bristol ROBERT M. KOCZERA (D) No Anti-life Twelfth Bristol KEIKO M. ORRALL (R) LL SS PBA Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N/A* Pro-life Pro-life Thirteenth Bristol ANTONIO F.D. CABRAL (D) No Anti-life Fourteenth Bristol ELIZABETH A. POIRIER (R) LL SS PBA TP Yes Pro-life Pro-life First Essex MICHAEL A. COSTELLO (D) Anti-life Second Essex LEONARD MIRRA (R) N/A* Mixed Anti-life Third Essex BRIAN S. DEMPSEY (D) No Anti-life Fourth Essex BRADFORD R. HILL (R) Yes Mixed Fifth Essex ANN-MARGARET FERRANTE (D) No Anti-life Sixth Essex JERALD A. PARISELLA (D) N/A* Seventh Essex JOHN D. KEENAN (D) Anti-life Eighth Essex LORI A. EHRLICH (D) No Anti-life Ninth Essex DONALD H. WONG (R) Yes Anti-life Tenth Essex ROBERT F. FENNELL (D) No Mixed Eleventh Essex STEVEN M. MALSH (D) Anti-life Twelfth Essex LEAH COLE (R) N/A* Pro-life Pro-life Thirteenth Essex THEODORE C. SPELIOTIS (D) No Anti-life Fourteenth Essex DIANA DIZOGLIO (D) N/A* Mixed Pro-life Fifteenth Essex LINDA DEAN CAMPBELL (D) Yes Mixed Sixteenth Essex MARCOS A. DEVERS (D) Yes Pro-life Seventeenth Essex FRANK A. MORAN (D) N/A* Eighteenth Essex JAMES J. LYONS, JR. (R) LL SS PBA TP Yes Pro-life Pro-life First Franklin STEPHEN KULIK (D) No Anti-life Second Franklin DENISE ANDREWS (D) No Anti-life First Hampden TODD M. SMOLA (R) Yes Pro-life Second Hampden BRIAN MICHAEL ASHE (D) Yes Pro-life Third Hampden NICHOLAS A. BOLDYGA (R) Yes Pro-life Fourth Hampden JOHN C. VELIS (D) N/A* Pro-life Fifth Hampden AARON VEGA (D) N/A* Anti-life Sixth Hampden MICHAEL J. FINN (D) Y Y Y Y N N N Y N Y Yes Mixed Pro-life Seventh Hampden THOMAS M. PETROLATI (D) No Pro-life Eighth Hampden JOSEPH F. WAGNER (D) No Mixed Ninth Hampden SEAN CURRAN (D) Pro-life Tenth Hampden CHERYL RIVERA (D) Anti-life Eleventh Hampden BENJAMIN SWAN (D) No Anti-life Twelfth Hampden ANGELO J. PUPPOLO, JR. (D) LL Yes Pro-life Pro-life First Hampshire PETER V. KOCOT (D) No Anti-life Second Hampshire JOHN W. SCIBAK (D) No Anti-life Third Hampshire ELLEN STORY (D) No Anti-life Anti-life First Middlesex SHEILA C. HARRINGTON (R) Yes Pro-life Pro-life Second Middlesex JAMES ARCIERO (D) Yes Pro-life Third Middlesex KATE HOGAN (D) No Anti-life Fourth Middlesex DANIELLE W. GREGOIRE (D) N/A* Anti-life Fifth Middlesex DAVID PAUL LINSKY (D) No Anti-life Sixth Middlesex CHRIS WALSH (D) No Anti-life Seventh Middlesex TOM SANNICANDRO (D) No Anti-life Eighth Middlesex CAROLYN C. DYKEMA (D) No Anti-life Ninth Middlesex THOMAS M. STANLEY (D) No Mixed Tenth Middlesex JOHN J. LAWN, JR. (D) N/A* Eleventh Middlesex KAY S. KHAN (D) No Anti-life Twelfth Middlesex RUTH B. BALSER (D) No Anti-life Thirteenth Middlesex THOMAS CONROY(D) Fourteenth Middlesex CORY ATKINS (D) No Anti-life Anti-life Fifteenth Middlesex JAY R. KAUFMAN (D) No Anti-life Sixteenth Middlesex THOMAS A. GOLDEN, JR. (D) Yes Pro-life Seventeenth Middlesex DAVID M. NANGLE (D) Yes Pro-life Pro-life Eighteenth Middlesex KEVIN J. MURPHY (D) Nineteenth Middlesex JAMES R. MICELI (D) LL SS PBA TP Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Yes Pro-life Pro-life Twentieth Middlesex BRADLEY H. JONES, JR. (R) Yes Mixed Twenty-first Middlesex KENNETH GORDON (D) N/A* Anti-life Twenty-second Middlesex MARC T. LOMBARDO (R) LL SS PBA Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Yes Pro-life Pro-life Twenty-third Middlesex SEAN GARBALLEY (D) No Anti-life Twenty-fourth Middlesex DAVID M. ROGERS (D) N/A* Anti-life Twenty-fifth Middlesex MARJORIE C. DECKER (D) N/A* Anti-life Twenty-sixth Middlesex TIMOTHY J. TOOMEY, JR. (D) No Pro-life Twenty-seventh Middlesex DENISE PROVOST (D) No Anti-life Twenty-eighth Middlesex WAYNE A. MATEWSKY (D) YYYYYYYYYY Pro-life Twenty-ninth Middlesex JONATHAN HECHT (D) No Anti-life Thirtieth Middlesex JAMES. J. DWYER (D) LL SS TP Yes Pro-life Pro-life Thirty-first Middlesex JASON LEWIS (D) Thirty-second Middlesex PAUL BRODEUR (D) No Anti-life Thirty-third Middlesex CHRISTOPHER G. FALLON (D) Pro-life Thirty-fourth Middlesex CARL SCIORTINO Thirty-fifth Middlesex PAUL J. DONATO (D) LL Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y No Pro-life Pro-life Thirty-sixth Middlesex COLLEEN M. GARRY (D) LL SS PBA TP Yes Pro-life Pro-life Thirty-seventh Middlesex JENNIFER E. BENSON (D) No Anti-life First Norfolk BRUCE J. AYERS (D) Yes Pro-life Second Norfolk TACKEY CHAN (D) No Third Norfolk RONALD MARIANO (D) No Anti-life Fourth Norfolk JAMES MICHAEL MURPHY (D) No Anti-life Fifth Norfolk MARK J. CUSACK (D) Yes Sixth Norfolk WILLIAM C. GALVIN (D) No Anti-life Seventh Norfolk WALTER F. TIMILTY (D) LL Yes Pro-life Eighth Norfolk LOUIS L. KAFKA (D) No Anti-life Anti-life Ninth Norfolk SHAWN C. DOOLEY (R) N/A* Pro-life Tenth Norfolk JEFFREY N. ROY (D) N/A* Anti-life Eleventh Norfolk PAUL MCMURTRY (D) No Anti-life Twelfth Norfolk JOHN H. ROGERS (D) LL SS PBA TP Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Yes Pro-life Pro-life Thirteenth Norfolk DENISE GARLICK (D) No Anti-life Fourteenth Norfolk ALICE HANLON PEISCH (D) No Anti-life Fifteenth Norfolk FRANK ISRAEL SMIZIK (D) No Anti-life First Plymouth VINNY M. deMACEDO (R) Pro-life Second Plymouth SUSAN WILLIAMS GIFFORD (R) Yes Mixed Third Plymouth GARRETT J. BRADLEY (D) No Anti-life Fourth Plymouth JAMES M. CANTWELL (D) No Anti-life Fifth Plymouth RHONDA NYMAN (D) No Sixth Plymouth JOSH S. CUTLER (D) N/A* Anti-life Seventh Plymouth GEOFF DIEHL (R) LL PBA TP Yes Pro-life Pro-life Eighth Plymouth ANGELO L. D'EMILIA (R) Yes Pro-life Ninth Plymouth MICHAEL D. BRADY (D) Yes Tenth Plymouth CHRISTINE E. CANAVAN (D) Eleventh Plymouth CLAIRE D. CRONIN (D) N/A* Anti-life Twelfth Plymouth THOMAS J. CALTER, III (D) Yes Pro-life Pro-life First Suffolk CARLO BASILE (D) Yes Anti-life Second Suffolk DANIEL JOSEPH RYAN (D) N/A* Anti-life Pro-life Third Suffolk AARON MICHLEWITZ (D) No Anti-life Fourth Suffolk NICK COLLINS (D) Yes Pro-life Pro-life Fifth Suffolk EVANDRO C. CARVALHO (D) N/A* Anti-life Sixth Suffolk RUSSELL E. HOLMES (D) Yes Pro-life Pro-life Seventh Suffolk GLORIA L. FOX (D) No Anti-life Eighth Suffolk JAY D. LIVINGSTONE (D) N/A* Anti-life Ninth Suffolk BYRON RUSHING (D) No Anti-life Tenth Suffolk EDWARD F. COPPINGER (D) Yes Pro-life Pro-life Eleventh Suffolk ELIZABETH A. MALIA (D) No Anti-life Twelfth Suffolk DAN CULLINANE (D) N/A* Anti-life Thirteenth Suffolk DANIEL J. HUNT (D) N/A* Anti-life Fourteenth Suffolk ANGELO M. SCACCIA (D) LL SS PBA Yes Pro-life Pro-life Fifteenth Suffolk JEFFREY SANCHEZ (D) No Anti-life Sixteenth Suffolk ROSELEE VINCENT (D) N/A* Anti-life Seventeenth Suffolk KEVIN G. HONAN (D) No Anti-life Eighteenth Suffolk MICHAEL J. MORAN (D) No Anti-life Ninteenth Suffolk ROBERT A. DELEO (D) No Mixed First Worcester KIMBERLY N. FERGUSON (R) LL Yes Pro-life Second Worcester JONATHAN D. ZLOTNIK (D) N/A* Anti-life Third Worcester STEPHEN L. DINATALE (D) LL Yes Pro-life Pro-life Fourth Worcester DENNIS A. ROSA (D) LL Yes Pro-life Fifth Worcester ANNE M. GOBI (D) Sixth Worcester PETER J. DURANT (R) LL SS PBA TP N/A* Pro-life Pro-life Seventh Worcester PAUL K. FROST (R) Yes Pro-life Anti-life Eighth Worcester KEVIN J. KUROS (R) LL PBA Yes Pro-life Pro-life Ninth Worcester GEORGE N. PETERSON, JR. (R) Tenth Worcester JOHN V. FERNANDES (D) Yes Anti-life Eleventh Worcester MATTHEW A. BEATON (R) LL Yes Pro-life Pro-life Twelfth Worcester HAROLD P. NAUGHTON, JR. (D) Yes Anti-life Pro-life Thirteenth Worcester JOHN J. MAHONEY (D) No Anti-life Fourteenth Worcester JAMES J. O'DAY (D) No Anti-life Fifteenth Worcester MARY S.
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