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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Politicians: Archives


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  • Alan Khazei (8) Democratic U.S. Rep Massachusetts-4
  • Ayanna Pressley (15) Democrat U.S. Rep Massachusetts-7
  • Bob Massie (4) Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor
  • Brian Herr (9) Republican Senate Challenger Massachusetts
  • Charlie Baker (1) Massachusetts Republican Governor
  • Chris Gabrieli (3) Democratic 2006 Challenger
  • Christy Mihos (16) Former Independent Challenger 2006
  • Deval Patrick (31) Massachusetts Democratic Governor
  • Don Berwick (6) Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger
  • Ed Markey (13) Dem. (Elected to Senate 2013) U.S. Rep Massachusetts-5
  • Elizabeth Warren (1) Massachusetts Senator
  • Gabriel Gomez (23) Republican Challenger Massachusetts
  • Grace Ross (12) Former Green Challenger 2006
  • Jack Robinson (6) Former Republican Special Election Challenger (2009) Massachusetts
  • Jane Swift (1) Former Republican Governor (2001-2002)
  • Jeff Beatty (12) Republican Senate challenger (2008) Massachusetts
  • Jill Stein (1) Green Challenger
  • Joe L. Kennedy (1) Libertarian Senate challenger Massachusetts
  • John Kerry (2) Cabinet Climate Envoy
  • Karyn Polito (1) Massachusetts Republican Lt. Governor
  • Kerry Healey (30) Former GOP 2006 Challenger
  • Martha Coakley (26) Massachusetts Democratic Challenger
  • Michael Capuano (8) Democrat U.S. Rep Massachusetts-7
  • Mitt Romney (6) Massachusetts Former GOP Governor (2003-2006); Pres. candidate (2008)
  • Robert Reich (3) Massachusetts Former Dem. Challenger 2002, and Cabinet Sec'y
  • Scott Brown (36) Term ended 2004 U.S. Rep Ninth Norfolk-9
  • Shannon O'Brien (5) Democratic Challenger 2002
  • Sonia Chang-Diaz (4) Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger
  • Stephen Pagliuca (10) Former Democratic Primary Senate Challenger (2009) Massachusetts
  • Steve Grossman (6) Massachusetts Democratic Challenger
  • Steve Lynch (6) Democrat (Senate run 2013) U.S. Rep Massachusetts-8
  • Tom Reilly (14) Former Dem. 2006 Challenger
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Abortion
    Ayanna Pressley: Abortion is a woman's right.
    Deval Patrick: Decisions on abortion should be made by women.
    Ed Markey: Endorsed by Planned Parenthood; supports abortion rights.
    Ed Markey: Litmus test for Supreme Court nominees on abortion.
    Gabriel Gomez: I'm personally prolife but I'm not changing any abortion law.
    Gabriel Gomez: 24-hour waiting period for a woman to get an abortion.
    Kerry Healey: Favors embryonic stem cell research.
    Kerry Healey: I've always been pro choice, even when Romney disagreed.
    Martha Coakley: AdWatch: Brown denied contraception to rape victims.
    Martha Coakley: Helped minors get court orders without parental consent.
    Martha Coakley: Partial-birth ban needs exceptions for maternal health.
    Scott Brown: Abortions should always be legally available.
    Scott Brown: 2005: Conscience-based opt out of post-rape contraception.
    Scott Brown: Provide info about emergency contraception to rape victims.
    Scott Brown: Support legalized abortion, but not partial-birth abortion.
    Scott Brown: Supported by right-to-life groups for stem cell stance.
    Scott Brown: Authored bill for 24-hour waiting period for abortion.
    Steve Lynch: Opposes abortion funding but funded Planned Parenthood.
    Steve Lynch: Protect Roe v. Wade; it keeps abortion in clinical setting.
Budget & Economy
    Ayanna Pressley: Federal projects can spur economic growth.
    Brian Herr: Limited Hopkinton annual property tax increase to under 2.5%.
    Brian Herr: Control spending; oppose earmarks; reduce national debt.
    Deval Patrick: Focus on stimulating economic growth via local aid.
    Ed Markey: Sequestration is another word for mindless cuts.
    Ed Markey: Home mortgage deduction should not be on the table.
    Gabriel Gomez: Deficit reduction might even include home mortgage deduction.
    Grace Ross: Shift $3B in more taxes on very rich by flattening tax rates.
    Kerry Healey: Work cooperatively with legislature on economic stimulus.
    Kerry Healey: Focus on local aid and mobilizing people to call for it.
    Martha Coakley: Economic system spiraling out of control; go after Wall St.
    Mitt Romney: Will cut deficit and help Americans save.
    Scott Brown: People are angry over tax and spend mentality and $12T debt.
    Scott Brown: AdWatch: $2 trillion spending spree puts us deeper in debt.
    Scott Brown: No new regulation of the financial markets.
    Scott Brown: Let private enterprise try to get us out of this mess.
    Scott Brown: No cap on bankers' salaries.
    Shannon O'Brien: Accused of mismanagement of Abandoned Property account.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Managing director at Bain Capital; trained as accountant.
    Steve Lynch: Voted for sequestration because debt default was worse.
    Steve Lynch: Supported sequestration and opposed financial bailouts.
Civil Rights
    Ayanna Pressley: The LGBTQ community should be treated as equals.
    Deval Patrick: Supports equal marriage rights for gays.
    Deval Patrick: Former civil rights prosecutor under President Clinton.
    Ed Markey: History of voting for women's rights.
    Gabriel Gomez: Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
    Gabriel Gomez: I support Paycheck Fairness Act's equal pay for women.
    Kerry Healey: Ban gay marriage, but not in GOP party platform.
    Mitt Romney: Sexual orientation should not preclude being a Scout.
    Mitt Romney: Put gay marriage ban into GOP party platform.
    Tom Reilly: Opposed gay marriage but now supports it.
Corporations
    Ayanna Pressley: No one on Wall Street is bigger than the law.
    Christy Mihos: Property tax rollback will bring businesses back in-state.
    Deval Patrick: Local capital for local biz, & state pays for infrastructure.
    Grace Ross: Focus on reducing costs for small biz, not big corporations.
    Kerry Healey: Make permitting process easier for businesses.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Not right to pay bankers bonuses with 320,000 unemployed.
Crime
    Deval Patrick: Focus on guns & gang violence, not immigration status.
    Deval Patrick: Supports criminal rehabilitation and alternative sentencing.
    Jeff Beatty: Endorsed Jessica's Law to punish sex offenders.
    Karyn Polito: Leading advocate for the passage of "Jessica's Law".
    Kerry Healey: Check immigration status when police stop motorists.
    Martha Coakley: Lobbied hard to keep Gerald Amirault in prison.
    Martha Coakley: Opposes death penalty, but federal death penalty ok.
    Mitt Romney: Safe streets will be a campaign theme.
    Mitt Romney: Will bring new businesses to urban areas.
    Scott Brown: Implement the death penalty in Massachusetts.
    Sonia Chang-Diaz: For criminal justice reform, repeal racist sentencing rules.
Drugs
    Gabriel Gomez: Federal medical marijuana OK; leave the rest to states.
    Scott Brown: Stop dependence on drug trade in Afghanistan.
Education
    Ayanna Pressley: Debt free college should be available for all.
    Brian Herr: Schools are best run at the local level; end Dept. of Ed.
    Chris Gabrieli: More charter schools and individual merit pay.
    Chris Gabrieli: Supports charter schools and calls them successful.
    Christy Mihos: Supports charters, but keep the cap for now.
    Christy Mihos: MCAS has become a weapon against public education.
    Christy Mihos: No state-based merit pay; let cities & towns decide.
    Deval Patrick: Cap charter schools until funding formulas improved.
    Deval Patrick: Supports unionized Horace Mann charter over regular charters.
    Deval Patrick: Supports MCAS but would add a science test and other tests.
    Deval Patrick: Favors MCAS, but not as only measure of education reform.
    Deval Patrick: Incentives & merit pay on school-wide basis only.
    Grace Ross: MCAS is a big part of why kids drop out of high school.
    Grace Ross: Constitutional commitment to education--35 kids is too many.
    Kerry Healey: No in-state tuition break for illegal immigrants.
    Kerry Healey: Raise mandatory age to 18 with incentives to stay in school.
    Kerry Healey: Higher percent of spending in classrooms & teachers.
    Kerry Healey: Strong backer of more charter schools.
    Kerry Healey: Strong supporter of the MCAS and standards.
    Kerry Healey: Merit pay for best teachers & those at most-needed schools.
    Scott Brown: Vouchers for public, private, or religious schools.
    Sonia Chang-Diaz: Fought for $1.5 billion in new aid to K-12 districts.
    Tom Reilly: Supports charter schools and MCAS testing.
    Tom Reilly: More charter schools and individual merit pay.
    Tom Reilly: Supports charter schools in districts with low test scores.
Energy & Oil
    Ayanna Pressley: We need to encourage renewable energy.
    Ed Markey: Simply unneeded to subsidize oil industry.
    Gabriel Gomez: Keystone XL project brings jobs.
    Jeff Beatty: Opposed gas tax hikes; roll-back gasoline prices.
    Jeff Beatty: Should have drilled ANWR 10 years ago; so drill now.
    Jeff Beatty: Additional drilling has to be part of the solution.
    Kerry Healey: I like wind energy, but Cape Wind is a bad idea.
    Martha Coakley: Supports national cap-and-trade system, plus renewables.
    Scott Brown: Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
    Scott Brown: Opposes cap-and-trade system, but renewables OK.
    Scott Brown: Cap-and-trade is a national energy tax.
    Sonia Chang-Diaz: Supports green public transportation.
Environment
    Ayanna Pressley: Empower the EPA; strengthen clean air & water laws.
    Bob Massie: Green Bank: capitalize on what nature provides us.
    Christy Mihos: Cape Wind hurts fishing industry.
    Deval Patrick: Engage in DC regulatory fight to protect our fishing fleet.
    Gabriel Gomez: I'm a "green Republican"; others in GOP deny science.
    Grace Ross: Agriculture deserves more economic development attention.
    Kerry Healey: Fight new regulations that put fishermen out of business.
    Mitt Romney: Clean environment will be a campaign theme.
    Steve Lynch: Help Massachusetts fishermen as working class.
Families & Children
    Ayanna Pressley: Paid family leave is a necessity.
    Bob Massie: Support Raise Up Agenda of paid family leave.
    Jeff Beatty: Supports protecting families.
    Kerry Healey: Teach abstinence as part of comprehensive sex ed.
    Martha Coakley: Mandatory prosecution of restraining order violations.
    Michael Capuano: Healthy Families Act: paid time off for respite care.
    Scott Brown: Presumption of shared parenting after divorce.
Foreign Policy
    Brian Herr: I believe in diplomacy; but keep terrorists out.
    Steve Grossman: Former chair of pro-Israel lobby continues strong support.
Free Trade
    Jeff Beatty: Protect jobs for American citizens.
Government Reform
    ACLU: Sue states for arbitrary voter registration deadlines.
    Alan Khazei: Include senior opportunities in Serve America Act.
    Deval Patrick: Limit campaign donations.
    Don Berwick: Fight overturn or repeal Citizens United.
    Ed Markey: Authored laws on Telecomm, insider trading, and Alzheimers.
    Gabriel Gomez: No anti-ad pledge; my only pledge is to Constitution.
    Martha Coakley: Current FEC reporting on donors & meetings is enough.
    Michael Capuano: If meetings are made public, people will not visit Senators.
    Scott Brown: Campaign disclosure but no donation limits.
    Scott Brown: Let president decide on nominees.
Gun Control
    Ayanna Pressley: Gun control needs to be implemented now.
    Deval Patrick: Strengthen existing gun laws; require background checks.
    Don Berwick: Weapons of war have no place on our streets.
    Ed Markey: Fight the NRA for broader gun control measures.
    Ed Markey: Expand background checks; ban assault weapons; fight NRA.
    Gabriel Gomez: In favor of closing the gun-show loophole.
    Gabriel Gomez: Tie gun sales to mental health checks.
    Gabriel Gomez: I oppose the NRA on expanded background checks.
    Gabriel Gomez: A lot of people in the GOP are wrong on gun control.
    Scott Brown: Concealed carry ok; but licenses & background checks ok too.
Health Care
    Alan Khazei: Close the Medicare Part D coverage gap.
    Ayanna Pressley: Obamacare should be further implemented.
    Bob Massie: Healthcare "entitlement" is Constitutional "life & liberty".
    Brian Herr: ObamaCare gives too much federal authority.
    Chris Gabrieli: Raise employer uninsured healthcare assessment above $295.
    Deval Patrick: Supports employer uninsured healthcare assessment, plus more.
    Ed Markey: Supported ObamaCare but would repeal aspects of it.
    Elizabeth Warren: Too many huge federal giveaways to the drug industry.
    Gabriel Gomez: Universal affordable coverage, but repeal ObamaCare.
    Gabriel Gomez: ObamaCare hurts the middle class & small business.
    Gabriel Gomez: Repeal medical device tax in ObamaCare.
    Jack Robinson: Universal coverage; no Medicare cuts; no tax increase.
    Jack Robinson: Increase consumer choice and control for longterm care.
    Kerry Healey: Save $160M by consolidating city & town insurance purchases.
    Martha Coakley: Individual mandate with public insurance option.
    Martha Coakley: Target enforcement against corrupt long term care facilities.
    Martha Coakley: System is broken and needs to be fixed now.
    Michael Capuano: Preserve all the Medicare benefits for seniors.
    Scott Brown: Ensure access to basic health care, including state funding.
    Scott Brown: MA already has health bill; don't impose new federal bill.
    Scott Brown: 41st vote against Obama's healthcare plan.
    Scott Brown: Public option is really a government option.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Close the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" coverage gap.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Expand home and community-based long term care services.
    Steve Grossman: Advocates bulk purchasing of medication to reduce prices.
    Steve Grossman: Commit to public school teaching in exchange for scholarship.
    Steve Lynch: Opposed ObamaCare and would repeal aspects of it.
    Tom Reilly: Opposes $295/yr employer fee for uninsured employees.
Homeland Security
    Alan Khazei: Would vote against Patriot Act.
    Ed Markey: Don't compromise innocent haystack looking for guilty needle.
    Gabriel Gomez: Fight to preserve Western Massachusetts' military units.
    Gabriel Gomez: Only traitors reveal harmful surveillance information.
    Jeff Beatty: Restructure forces, larger, & for liberation, not occupation.
    Martha Coakley: Would vote against Patriot Act as currently formulated.
    Martha Coakley: Protect due process in any plan to keep America safe.
    Scott Brown: Supports enhanced interrogation techniques.
    Scott Brown: No constitutional rights for enemy combatants.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Would vote against Patriot Act.
Immigration
    Ayanna Pressley: America needs to be immigrant friendly.
    Brian Herr: Enforce existing laws including penalizing employers.
    Brian Herr: Seal the borders to prevent illegal entry.
    Charlie Baker: Adopt Secure Communities and REAL ID standards.
    Christy Mihos: Illegal immigration is illegal--they cost Massachusetts $1B.
    Christy Mihos: Dems want immigrants votes; GOP wants their cheap labor.
    Christy Mihos: No licenses for illegals; felony for driving without license.
    Deval Patrick: In-state tuition ok for illegals; focus on employers.
    Deval Patrick: Drivers licenses for illegals, for security and safety.
    Don Berwick: Comprehensive reform with pathway to citizenship.
    Gabriel Gomez: Make the Senate "Gang of Eight" a "Gang of Nine".
    Gabriel Gomez: Pathway to citizenship should include learning English.
    Grace Ross: Illegal immigrants pay taxes like the rest of us.
    Grace Ross: Illegal immigration is only an issue because of jobs.
    Kerry Healey: A nation of immigrants, but also a nation of laws.
    Kerry Healey: Opposes in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
    Kerry Healey: Urges Attorney General to investigate hiring illegals.
    Kerry Healey: Opposes issuing licenses to illegal immigrants.
Jobs
    Alan Khazei: Enforceable workforce protection for seniors.
    Ayanna Pressley: A higher Federal minimum wage is beneficial.
    Deval Patrick: Pledge to work with AFL-CIO means being open to all voices.
    Ed Markey: $10 an hour minimum wage is just a first step.
    Jack Robinson: Restore the full protections of the age discrimination laws.
    Kerry Healey: Deval's pledge to work with AFL-CIO means higher costs.
    Martha Coakley: Restore the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
    Michael Capuano: Strengthen rights of seniors against age discrimination.
    Robert Reich: Prodded Clinton on minimum wage & corporate welfare.
    Scott Brown: No affirmative action in public employment nor contracting.
    Scott Brown: AdWatch: I agree with JFK that cutting taxes creates jobs.
    Stephen Pagliuca: 10% unemployment is totally unacceptable.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Reverse Gross v FBL Financial: no age discrimination.
Principles & Values
    Alan Khazei: Would take a "big citizenship" approach to Washington.
    Brian Herr: Four R's: Reasonable; Responsible; Respectful; Republican.
    Christy Mihos: “Game on”, but maybe as Republican or maybe independent.
    Christy Mihos: On being a spoiler: How can you spoil a rotten system?
    Christy Mihos: Not just passing through Massachusetts, like some governors.
    Christy Mihos: I represent 50% of voters; no difference between Dems & GOP.
    Deval Patrick: Galvin withdraws; it’s head-to-head against Tom Reilly.
    Deval Patrick: Galvin withdraws; it’s head-to-head against Tom Reilly.
    Deval Patrick: Patrick wins first test at caucuses, by 2-1 margin.
    Deval Patrick: Running to reach out to all & create a stake in the future.
    Deval Patrick: Do we stay on this path, or do we make a change?
    Deval Patrick: Outsider governor balances entrenched establishment.
    Don Berwick: I believe steadfastly in the separation of church and state.
    Gabriel Gomez: FactCheck: Markey authored successful bills over 22 years.
    Grace Ross: Earns $30K/year; millionaires have no clue what we face.
    Grace Ross: Running to rebuild democracy.
    Jack Robinson: Ran as Republican in past; running as Independent in 2013.
    Jane Swift: First sitting governor to give birth.
    Kerry Healey: Focus on giving voters a meaningful choice.
    Kerry Healey: Republican governor balances 87% Democrat legislature.
    Martha Coakley: Considers herself a liberal, but look at the record.
    Michael Capuano: Proud to say I'm a liberal.
    Robert Reich: Calling Democrats "dead" meant to stimulate debate.
    Robert Reich: Pro-economic growth progressive.
    Scott Brown: $1.3 million in 24 hours via Internet "Money Bomb" appeal.
    Shannon O'Brien: Spouse resigns as lobbyist, to avoid conflict of interest.
    Sonia Chang-Diaz: First Latina elected to the Massachusetts State Senate.
    Steve Grossman: All deserve equal opportunity to benefit from hard work.
    Tom Reilly: Conte case: Reilly wanted to spare family, not cover up.
    Tom Reilly: Conte case: Reilly wanted to spare family, not cover up.
    Tom Reilly: Galvin withdraws; it's head-to-head against Deval Patrick.
    Tom Reilly: Galvin withdraws; it's head-to-head against Deval Patrick.
    Tom Reilly: Built $4M warchest from those doing business with AG office.
    Tom Reilly: Built $4M warchest from those doing business with AG office.
    Tom Reilly: Running mate withdraws due to troubled personal finances.
    Tom Reilly: Appeals to centrist voters and blue-collar workers.
Social Security
    Alan Khazei: Individual retirement accounts ok; but not from Trust Fund.
    Ayanna Pressley: Social Security is crucial and must not be cut.
    Don Berwick: Oppose any efforts to privatize, including chained CPI.
    Jack Robinson: No diversion of payroll tax to individual retirement account.
    Joe L. Kennedy: Ready to cut Social Security & other entitlements.
    Martha Coakley: Safety net of Social Security is more important than ever.
    Michael Capuano: Resist any attempt to privatize Social Security.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Never allow diverting into individual retirement accounts.
Tax Reform
    Alan Khazei: Supports a war tax to pay for Afghanistan surge.
    Ayanna Pressley: Our tax code should relieve the 99%.
    Christy Mihos: Set aside 40% of state revenue for local aid.
    Christy Mihos: Get money out of Beacon Hill and back to cities & towns.
    Christy Mihos: Roll back taxes but restore local aid.
    Deval Patrick: Restore local aid so towns can cut property taxes.
    Deval Patrick: Supports local meals tax and local-option taxes.
    Deval Patrick: Cut property tax; expand circuit breaker & senior exemption.
    Deval Patrick: Tax rollback is shell game, shifting burden to property tax.
    Don Berwick: Ask people with higher incomes to pay higher rates.
    Ed Markey: Higher-income people should pay their fair share of taxes.
    Grace Ross: We don't have enough income tax.
    Grace Ross: Tax rollback kills cities via property tax increase of 35%.
    Grace Ross: Tax rollback gives middle class $100s, but $100,000s to rich.
    Jeff Beatty: Abolishing state income tax would act as economic stimulus.
    John Kerry: Abolishing state income tax would be calamitous.
    Kerry Healey: More local aid, to keep property taxes low.
    Kerry Healey: Opposes local meals tax and local-option taxes.
    Kerry Healey: Avoid property tax increases by reducing waste.
    Kerry Healey: Failure to roll back taxes cost people $2 billion since 2000.
    Martha Coakley: Consider a war tax to pay for Afghanistan surge.
    Martha Coakley: Bush tax cuts favor wealthy Americans.
    Martha Coakley: AdWatch: Get taxes up from more employment, not tax increase.
    Martha Coakley: Extend Bush tax cuts for the lowest four tax brackets.
    Martha Coakley: Some taxes are investments like for infrastructure & schools.
    Scott Brown: Maintain Bush tax cuts after 2010.
    Scott Brown: 15 percent across the board tax cut.
    Scott Brown: Permanently eliminate the estate tax.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Job Focused Tax Reform: incentives, training, & funding.
    Steve Grossman: Supports income tax rollback.
    Steve Grossman: Fund health care with greater cigarette tax.
    Tom Reilly: Lift lottery fund cap to increase local aid.
Technology
    Alan Khazei: Focus on mobility as key determinants of senior wellness.
    Ayanna Pressley: Spending on infrastructure will benefit Americans.
    Bob Massie: Replace patchwork projects with world-class public transit.
    Christy Mihos: Sell naming rights to Big Dig bridge.
    Gabriel Gomez: Let the people decide if rail needed to Western Mass.
    Jack Robinson: Supports Complete Streets policy for all ages & abilities.
    Martha Coakley: Take into account drivers' abilities, from teens to seniors.
    Martha Coakley: Make federal research-and-development tax credit permanent.
    Michael Capuano: $6B to restore MA roads, bridges, and tunnels.
    Stephen Pagliuca: Require federal fundees to adopt Complete Street principles.
War & Peace
    Brian Herr: Yield to President on war strategy, but questions timetable.
    Gabriel Gomez: Align with right rebel group and impose no-fly zone in Syria.
    Jeff Beatty: Iraq invasion was a mistake, but we can't leave now.
    Jeff Beatty: Leave Iraq with success, by any path.
    Jeff Beatty: Evidence for WMD in Iraq was not credible.
    Jeff Beatty: Kerry failed to read vital intelligence reports pre-Iraq war.
    John Kerry: Based vote for Iraq war on CIA's intelligence reports.
    Martha Coakley: Bring troops home from Afghanistan.
    Martha Coakley: Focus efforts where terrorists are, not Afghanistan.
    Michael Capuano: No funding for Afghan surge; no funding for Iraq war.
    Scott Brown: Finish the job in Afghanistan: keep Taliban and al-Qaeda out.
    Scott Brown: Supports 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan.
    Scott Brown: Terrorists are not gone from Afghanistan.
Welfare & Poverty
    Deval Patrick: Increase funding for employment and job training programs.
    Kerry Healey: Faith-based organizations ok for providing social services.


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