Who Voted for Slots and Casinos?

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April 6, 2010

HOUSE BUDGET PANEL APPROVES GAMBLING BILL ON 18-6 VOTE:
Speaker Robert DeLeo's casino and racetrack slot machine proposal secured its second significant vote of approval of the week on Tuesday, with a batch of lawmakers reversing their anti-gambling votes of two years ago.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted 18-6 in a poll to endorse the plan sanctioning two resort casinos and 750 slot machines each at the state’s two horse tracks and two former dog tracks.

The bill on Monday was advanced by the Economic Development Committee on a 12-2 vote. Three Democrats and three Republicans voted against the bill in the latest poll, three Democrats and two Republicans reserved their rights, and two Democrats "could not be reached," according to a summary provided by committee aides.

Yes votes among Democrats:
chair Charles Murphy
vice-chair Barbara L'Italien
assistant vice-chair Stephen Kulik
Christine Canavan
Geraldine Creedon
Thomas Conroy
Joseph Driscoll
James Fagan
Michael Kane
Robert Koczera
John Quinn, Robert Rice
Michael Rush
Christopher Speranzo
Walter Timilty
James Welch

Yes votes among Republicans:
Robert Hargraves.


No votes among Democrats:
Ruth Balser
Denis Guyer
Carl Sciortino

No votes among Republicans:
Reps. Viriato deMacedo
Karyn Polito
Todd Smola.

Reserving their rights are:


Democratic Reps. 
Christopher Donelan
Michael Rodrigues
Thomas Sannicandro

 Republican Reps.
Jeffrey Perry
Daniel Webster .

Flip Floppers:
Committee members who voted for the bill Tuesday and voted against Gov. Deval Patrick’s three-casino bill in 2008 included Reps.

Murphy
L’Italien
Kulik
Conroy
Fagan
Kane
Speranzo
Welch
Hargraves