After the dust is settled and now that the bloodless revolution of 2006 is over, it is easier for me to make a list of those who stayed in office and are opponents of marriage equality than it is to make a list of it's supporters, but here is a list of who won in the House and Senate throughout Massachusetts:
In the Senate:
Benjamin Downing (Dem)
James Timilty (Dem)
Mark Montigny (Dem)
Robert O'Leary (Dem)
Gale Candaras (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Stanley Rosenberg (Dem)
Steven Panagiotakos (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Susan Fargo (Dem)
Brian Joyce (Dem)
Robert Hedlund (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Dianne Wilkerson (Dem)
Marian Walsh (Dem)
Harriette Chandler (Dem)
Edward Augustus (Dem)
In the House:
Cleon Turner (Dem)
Demetrius Atsalis (Dem)
Sarah Peake (Dem)
Eric Turkington (Dem)
Denis Guyer (Dem)
Jay Barrows (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
John Lepper (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Steven D'Amico (Dem)
Robert Correia (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
William Straus (Dem)
Robert Koczera (Dem)
Stephen Canessa (Dem)
Antonio Cabral (Dem)
Harriett Stanley (Dem)
Mary Grant (Dem)
Joyce Spiliotis (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Linda Campbell (Dem)
Barbara L'Italien (Dem)
Rosemary Sandlin (Dem)
Joseph Wagner (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Sean Curran (Dem)
Cheryl Rivera (Dem)
Angelo Puppolo (Dem)
Peter Kocot (Dem)
Robert Hargraves (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
David Linsky (Dem)
Peter Koutoujian (Dem)
Thomas Conroy (Dem)
Thomas Golden (Dem)
William Brownsberger (Dem)
Alice Wolf (Dem)
Stephen Smith (Dem)
Rachel Kaprielian (Dem)
James Eldridge (Dem)
James Murphy (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Louis Kafka (Dem)
Susan Gifford (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Robert Nyman (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Daniel Webster (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Allen McCarthy (Dem)
Thomas Calter (Dem)
Sal DiMasi (Dem)
Marie St. Fleur (Dem)
Michael Moran (Dem)
Lewis Evangelidis (GOP)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Stephen DiNatale (Dem)
Jennifer Flanagan (Dem)
Anne Gobi (Dem)Voted against gay marriage in 2004
Geraldo Alicea (Dem)
John Fernandes (Dem)
James Leary (Dem)
I am not sure how you count these votes, but I see only 15 opponents of gay marriage still around and able to vote on this amendment that were here and voted in 2004. The legislators would be doing us a tremendous service by killing the amendment to deny marriage equality, as it would save us from another two years of vitriol. Not one more day should be spent on this issue, but it will take just one more to end it for good. Call your representative and let him know that you don't want our state to waste any more time on this hateful amendment.
No comments:
Post a Comment