Quotes to Remember

“I’m 100 percent ecstatic about it’

-- Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D - Revere)
"No. 1, this bill is going to pass. There is no question it has enough votes. The second is that a vote against it would be symbolic, but meaningless. I've been in the Legislature for 18 years and it was only in the last year and a half that I've been invited to be in the inner circle of advisers to the speaker."

-- Rep.Ellen Story (D - Amherst)
"Since the speaker has been here, there have been no consequences for anybody who did not vote with the speaker. My sense is that this is the bill he has cared about more than any other bill. My sense is that there may well be consequences for people voting against this bill, particularly people in his inner circle."

--Rep. Ellen Story (D - Amherst) explaining her flip vote
(From State House News)