AIM Gives Legislators Low Marks
The state's biggest business association has released its 2007-2008 legislative scorecard, and the senators and representatives from Central Massachusetts - like those from the rest of the state - generally got poor marks.
The Associated Industries of Massachusetts decried the passage of bills it said would increase corporate taxes and add new assessments for health care, as well as a bill requiring a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It praised a successful bill freezing unemployment insurance rates for 2008 and cheered the failure of one that would have allowed for the banning of certain chemicals in manufacturing.
Based on their votes on those bills and several others, AIM gave all but one Central Massachusetts senator a rating of 44 percent positive. The only senate Republican in the region, Sen. Scott Brown of Wrentham, got a better score, with 67 percent.
Scores for the region's state representatives were also split along party lines. The six Republicans all received scores of 88 percent, while the Democrats' scores ranged from 38 percent to 57 percent.
Senators
Robert A. Antonioni, D-Leominster: 44 percent
Edward M. Augustus, Jr., D-Worcester: 44 percent
Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre: 44 percent
Scott P. Brown: R-Wrentham: 67 percent
Harriette L. Chandler, D-Worcester: 44 percent
Susan C. Fargo, D-Lincoln: 44 percent
Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge: 44 percent
Steven C. Panagiotakos, D-Lowell: 44 percent
Pamela P. Resor, D-Acton: 44 percent
Karen E. Spilka, D-Ashland: 44 percent
Representatives
Geraldo Alicea, D-Charlton: 38 percent
Cory Atkins, D-Concord: 43 percent
John J. Binienda, D-Worcester: 50 percent
Jennifer M. Callahan, D-Sutton: 38 percent
Thomas P. Conroy, D-Wayland: 38 percent
Stephen L. DiNatale, D-Fitchburg: 38 percent
Christopher J. Donelan, D-Orange: 38 percent
James B. Eldridge, D-Acton: 38 percent
Lewis G. Evangelidis, R-Holden: 88 percent
John V. Fernandes, D-Milford: 57 percent
Jennifer L. Flanagan, D-Leominster: 38 percent
John P. Fresolo, D-Worcester: 38 percent
Paul K. Frost, R-Auburn: 88 percent
Anne M. Gobi, D-Spencer: 38 percent
Geoffrey D. Hall, D-Westford: 38 percent
Robert S. Hargraves, R-Groton: 88 percent
Paul Kujawski, D-Webster: 50 percent
David Paul Linsky, D-Natick: 50 percent
Paul J. P. Loscocco, R-Holliston: 88 percent
Harold P. Naughton, Jr, D-Clinton: 50 percent
James J. O'Day, D-West Boylston: 38 percent
Vincent A Pedone, D-Worcester: 50 percent
Alice Hanlon Peisch, D-Wellesley: 38 percent
Karyn E. Polito, R-Shrewsbury: 88 percent
Robert L. Rice, Jr, D-Gardner: 57 percent
Richard J. Ross, R-Wrentham: 88 percent
Tom Sannicandro, D-Ashland: 43 percent
Robert P. Spellane, D-Worcester: 50 percent
James E. Vallee, D-Franklin: 38 percent
Patricia A. Walrath, D-Stow: 43 percent
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