In
the table below are the results of a series of votes on
Fair Elections / Clean Elections taken by the Massachusetts Senate in
2001-02, including descriptions of each vote. You will
also find telephone numbers for your elected officials,
and you can send them e-mail by clicking on their names.
Please let them hear from you on their Fair Elections / Clean Elections
voting record.
A plus sign
("+") represents a vote to keep faith with
citizens who passed Clean Elections by a margin of 2 to
1. A negative sign ("-") represents a vote to
break faith with voters on the Clean Elections Law.
Description of the
Votes
On June 13,
2001, the Senate voted 36 "yeas" to 2
"nays" in support of the "Lees/Rosenberg
Amendment,"
which made changes in the voter-approved law that
Mass. Voters for Clean Elections supported. We
supported this amendment because it preserves the
core integrity of what voters approved in 1998.
On February
14, 2002, the Senate voted 17 "yeas" to
19 "nays" to approve amendments to
Clean Elections identical to the Lees-Rosenberg
Amendment, which passed by a vote of 36-2 in
June, 2001.
On February
14, 2002, the Senate voted 19 "yeas" to
18 "nays" to approve an amendment that
would limit the Clean Elections system to the two
candidates who had qualified as of January 25,
2002.
On June 13,
2002, the Senate voted 34 "yeas" to 3
"nays" to approve $9.6 million to
qualifying Clean Elections candidates, and send a
negatively-worded, non-binding ballot question to
the voters on Clean Elections.
Notes:
The number in the second column ("% for
CE") reflects the percentage of voters in the
senator's district that voted for Clean Elections in
1998.
The Senate President typically does not cast a vote.
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