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Policing Bill Voting Record.Xlsx Senate Vote on Justice, Equity and Accounability in Law Enforcement S.2963 Policing First Name Last Name Party Accountability Counties Towns Represented Senator Email Facebook Twitter Instagram Vote S.2963 Waltham, Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Michael Barrett (D) Yes Middlesex [email protected] @BarrettSenate @senatorbarrett Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Sudbury, Weston Joseph Boncore (D) Yes Suffolk, Middlesex Boston, Revere, Winthrop, Cambridge [email protected] @SenatorJoeBoncore @joeboncore @joeboncore Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Michael Brady (D) Yes Plymouth, Bristol [email protected] @Mike-Brady-for-Senate @Brady_Works Hanson, Plympton, Whitman, Easton Boston (Brighton, Back Bay, Fenway), Belmont, William Brownsberger (D) Yes Suffolk, Middlesex [email protected] @willbrownsberger @WBrownsberger @wbrownsberger Watertown Boylston, Clinton, Holden, Northborough, Harriette Chandler (D) Yes Worcester [email protected] @SenHarrietteChandler @Sen_Chandler Princeton, West Boylston, Worcester Sonia Chang-Diaz (D) Yes Suffolk Boston (Jamaica Plain) [email protected] @sonia.changdiaz @SoniaChangDiaz @Soniachang_diaz Nick Collins (D) Yes Suffolk Boston (South Boston) [email protected] @nickcollinsma @nickcollinsma Northampton, Amherst, Hadley, Hatfield, Pelham, South Hadley, Bernardston, Colrain, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Leverett, Joanne Comerford (D) Yes Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester [email protected] @senatorjocomerford @Jo_Comerford @jocomerfordma Leyden, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, Whatley, Royalston Cynthia Creem (D) Yes Middlesex, Norfolk Newton, Brookline, Wellesley [email protected] @cynthia.creem @CindyCreem @senatorcindycreem Lynn, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, Brendan Crighton (D) Yes Essex [email protected] @BrendanCrighton @brendancrighton Swampscott Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Julian Cyr (D) Yes Dukes, Nantucket Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Yarmouth, [email protected] @JulianCyr @juliancyr Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown, Gosnold, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, West Tisbury, Nantucket Sal DiDomenico (D) Yes Middlesex, Suffolk Cambridge, Boston, Chelsea [email protected] @SalDiDomenico @saldidomenicoma Haverhill, Newburyport, Amesbury, Merrimac, Diana DiZoglio (D) No Essex [email protected] @DianaDiZoglio @ddizoglio Methuen, North Andover, Salisbury Marlborough, Acton, Ayer, Boxborough, Hudson, Littleton, Maynard, Shirley, Stow, James Eldridge (D) Yes Middlesex, Worcester [email protected] @JamieEldridgeMA @senatorjamieeldridge Sudbury, Harvard, Northborough, Southborough, Westborough Blackstone, Douglas, Dudley, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, Ryan Fattman (R) No Worcester, Norfolk [email protected] @ryan.fattman @RyanFattman Oxford, Southbridge, Sutton, Uxbridge, Webster, Bellingham Attleboro, Mansfield, Norton, Rehoboth, Paul Feeney (D) Yes Bristol, Norfolk Seekonk, Foxborough, Medfield, Sharon, [email protected] @PaulFeeneyMA @paulfeeneyma Walpole Barry Finegold (D) Yes Essex, Middlesex Lawrence, Andover, Dracut, Tewksbury [email protected] @Barry_Finegold @barry.finegold Senate Vote on Justice, Equity and Accounability in Law Enforcement S.2963 Policing First Name Last Name Party Accountability Counties Towns Represented Senator Email Facebook Twitter Instagram Vote S.2963 Woburn, Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Cindy Friedman (D) Yes Middlesex [email protected] @CindyFriedmanMA @CindyFriedmanMA @sencindyfriedman Lexington Ashburnham, Athol, Barre, Brookfield, Charlton, East Brookfield, Hardwick, Hubbardston, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, Paxton, Peterhsam, Anne Gobi (D) No Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex [email protected] @AnneGobi Phillipston, Rutland, Spencer, Sturbridge, Templeton, Warren, West Brookfield, Winchendon, Brimfield, Holland, Monson, Palmer, Wlaes, Ware, Ashby Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Worthington, Adam Hinds (D) Yes Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, Hampden [email protected] @adamghinds @senadamhinds Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Monroe, Rowe, Shelburne, Blandford, Chester Patricia Jehlen (D) Yes Middlesex Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Winchester [email protected] @SenPatJehlen @senjehlen @patjehlen Quincy, Braintree, Holbrook, Abington, John Keenan (D) Yes Norfolk, Plymouth [email protected] @senjohnfkeenan @SenJohnFKeenan @senjohnfkeenan Rockland Lowell, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, Edward Kennedy (D) Yes Middlesex [email protected] @SenEdKennedy Tyngsborough, Westford Chicopee, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Eric Lesser (D) Yes Hampden, Hampshire Longmeadow, Ludlow, Wilbraham, [email protected] @EricLesserMA @EricLesser @ericlesserma Belchertown, Granby Malden, Winchester, Melrose, Stoneham, Jason Lewis (D) Yes Middlesex [email protected] @SenJasonLewis @SenJasonLewis @senjasonlewis Wakefield, Reading Joan Lovely (D) Yes Essex Beverly, Peabody, Salem, Danvers, Topsfield [email protected] @SenatorLovely @SenJoanLovely @senjoanblovely New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Mark Montigny (D) Yes Bristol, Plymouth [email protected] Fairhaven, Mattapoisett Auburn, Grafton, Leicester, Millbury, Michael Moore (D) No Worcester [email protected] @SenMikeMoore Northbridge, Shrewsbury, Upton, Worcester Kingston, Pembroke, Plymouth, Bourne, Susan Moran (D) Yes Plymouth, Barnstable [email protected] @moranvote @votemoran Falmouth, Sandwich Duxbury, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Norwell, Patrick O'Connor (R) No Plymouth, Norfolk [email protected] @PatrickMOConnor Scituate, Cohasset Weymouth Bridgewater, Carver, Marion, Middleborough, Marc Pacheco (D) No Plymouth, Bristol Wareham, Berkley, Dighton, Raynham, [email protected] @MarcRPacheco Taunton Franklin, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Rebecca Rausch (D) Yes Norfolk, Bristol, MiddlesexWellesley, Wrentham, Attleboro, North [email protected] Attleborough, Natick, Sherborn, Wayland @Becca_Rausch Fall River, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea, Michael Rodrigues (D) Yes Bristol, Plymouth [email protected] @SenRodrigues @rodriguesforsenate Westport, Lakeville, Rochester Senate Vote on Justice, Equity and Accounability in Law Enforcement S.2963 Policing First Name Last Name Party Accountability Counties Towns Represented Senator Email Facebook Twitter Instagram Vote S.2963 Boston (Forest Hills, Hyde Park, Readville, Michael Rush (D) No Norfolk, Suffolk Roslindale, and West Roxbury), Dover, [email protected] @SenatorMikeRush @SenatorMikeRush Dedham, Needham, Norwood, Westwood Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Karen Spilka (D) Yes Middlesex, Norfolk [email protected] @SenatorKarenSpilka @KarenSpilka @senspilka Natick, Franklin, Medway Gloucester, Boxford, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester-by- Bruce Tarr (R) No Essex, Middlesex the-Sea, Middleton, Newbury, North Andover, [email protected] @SenBruceTarr Rockport, Rowley, Wenham, West Newbury, North Reading, Wilmington Avon, Braintree, Canton, Milton, Randolph, Walter Timilty (D) No Norfolk, Bristol, PlymouthSharon, Stoughton, Easton, East Bridgewater, [email protected] @WalterFTimilty West Bridgewater Fichburg, Gardner, Leominster, Berlin, Bolton, Dean Tran (R) No Worcester, Middlesex Clinton, Lunenburg, Sterling, Westminster, [email protected] @SenatorDeanTran Townsend Chicopee, Holyoke, Westfield, Agawam, John Velis (D) No Hampden, Hampshire Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, [email protected] @johnvelis_ Tolland, Easthampton, Southampton James Welch (D) No Hampden Chicopee, Springfield, West Springfield [email protected] @Sen_Jim_Welch.
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