95.4% (11) Rep. William Galvin (D-Canton) 94.2% (14) Rep. Susan Gifford (R-Wareham) 100% (0) Rep. Frank
Hynes (D-Marshfield) 99.5% (1) Rep. Louis Kafka (D-Sharon) 100% (0) Rep. Ronald Mariano (D-Quincy) 98.7% (3) Rep. Allen
McCarthy (D-Bridgewater) 99.5% (1) Rep. James Murphy (D-Weymouth) 98.3% (4) Rep. Robert Nyman (D-Hanover) 97.9% (5)
Rep. Walter Timilty (D-Milton) 99.5% (1) Rep. Stephen Tobin (D-Quincy) 86.8% (32) Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Hanson) 99 5%
(1) ALSO UP ON BEACON HILL TWO PROPOSED 2008 BALLOT QUESTIONS CLEAR FIRST HURDLE – The Secretary of
State’s Office said supporters of initiative petitions to abolish the state’s 5.3 percent income tax and to replace the criminal
penalties for possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana with a new system of civil penalties have collected the 66,593 required
signatures to move to the next step.
Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local representatives’ final roll call attendance records for the 2007 session. The House held 243 roll
call votes. Beacon Hill Roll Call tabulates the number of roll calls for which each representative was present and voting and
calculates that number as a percentage of the total roll call votes. That percentage is the number commonly referred to as the
roll call attendance record.
Several quorum roll calls, used to gather a majority of members onto the House floor to conduct business, are also included in
the 243 roll calls. On quorum roll calls, members simply vote “present” to indicate their presence in the chamber. When a
representative does not indicate his or her presence on a quorum roll call, we count that as a roll call absence just like any other
roll call absence.
Only 34 of the 159 House members have 100 percent roll call attendance records – 21 of the 140 Democrats and 13 of the 19
Republicans.
The three worst roll call attendance records belong to Reps. Thomas Kennedy (D-Brockton), who missed 46 roll calls (81 percent
attendance record); Michael Rush (D-Boston), who missed 43 roll calls (82.3 percent attendance) and David Flynn (DBridgewater),
who missed 37 roll calls (84.7 percent attendance).
Rounding out the 10 members with the worst records are Reps. Ellen Story (D-Amherst), who missed 35 roll calls (85.5 percent
attendance); Stephen Tobin (D-Quincy), John Lepper (R-Attleboro), Charles Murphy (D-Burlington) and Pam Richardson (DFramingham),
who each missed 32 roll calls (86.8 percent attendance); Robert Correia (D-Fall River), who missed 31 roll calls
(87.2 percent attendance) and Marie St. Fleur (D-Boston), who missed 30 roll calls (87.6 percent attendance).
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES’ 2007 ROLL CALL ATTENDANCE
The percentage listed next to the representative’s name is the percentage of roll call votes for which the representative was
present and voting. The number in parentheses represents the number of roll calls the representative missed.
Rep. Bruce Ayers (D-Quincy) 94.6% (13)
Rep. Garrett Bradley (D-Hingham) 100% (0)
Rep. Thomas Calter (D-Kingston) 100% (0)
Rep. Vinny deMacedo (R-Plymouth) 97.5% (6)
Rep. Joseph Driscoll (D-Braintree) 97.1% (7)
