Rating Group: Associated Industries of Massachusetts
2009-2010 Positions
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| State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Walsh | 63% | |||
| Marty Walsh | 63% | |||
| Alice Wolf | 63% | |||
| Stephen Kulik | 57% | |||
| John Quinn | 57% | |||
| Robert Rice | 57% | |||
| MA | State House - Twelfth Norfolk | John Rogers | Democratic | 57% |
| Ellen Story | 57% | |||
| Brian Wallace | 57% | |||
| James Welch | 57% | |||
| Sonia Chang-Diaz | 56% | |||
| Susan Fargo | 56% | |||
| Michael Morrissey | 56% | |||
| Steven Tolman | 56% | |||
| MA | U.S. House - 5 | Katherine Clark | Democratic | 50% |
| MA | State Senate - Second Middlesex and Norfolk | Cindy Creem | Democratic | 50% |
| Steven D'Amico | 50% | |||
| Joseph Driscoll, Jr. | 50% | |||
| Lida Harkins | 50% | |||
| Elizabeth Malia | 50% | |||
| James Miceli | 50% | |||
| MA | State House - Fourteenth Worcester | James O'Day | Democratic | 50% |
| Denise Provost | 50% | |||
| MA | State Senate - Norfolk and Suffolk | Mike Rush | Democratic | 50% |
| Carl Sciortino, Jr. | 50% | |||
| Frank Smizik | 50% | |||
| Robert Spellane | 50% | |||
| MA | State House - Ninth Middlesex | Thomas Stanley | Democratic | 50% |
| Tim Toomey, Jr. | 50% | |||
| Steven Walsh | 50% | |||
| MA | State Senate - Middlesex and Worcester | Jamie Eldridge | Democratic | 44% |
| MA | State Senate - Second Middlesex | Pat Jehlen | Democratic | 44% |
| Thomas McGee | 44% | |||
| MA | State Senate - Second Bristol and Plymouth | Mark Montigny | Democratic | 44% |
| Christine Canavan | 43% | |||
| Christopher Fallon | 43% | |||
| Pamela Richardson | 43% | |||
| Stat Smith | 43% | |||
| Jennifer Callahan | 38% | |||
| Mark Falzone | 38% | |||
| Robert Fennell | 38% | |||
| MA | State House - Twenty-Third Middlesex | Sean Garballey | Democratic | 38% |
| Marc Pacheco | 38% | |||
| Matthew Patrick | 38% | |||
| David Sullivan | 38% | |||
| Geraldine Creedon | 33% | |||
| Kenneth Donnelly | 33% |