Voting with the RI House Leadership, 1999-2000 (posted July 15, 2000)

In order to determine the extent to which on major contested votes in the House over the past two year, legislators voted for or against the leadership, we compiled House votes in 1999 and 2000. For the session which just ended, the individuals most likely to vote with the House leadership were: Farrell (100%), Caprio (98%), Martineau (97%), Winfield (95%), Menard (95%), Barr (94%), Dennigan (92%), Giannini (92%), Garvey (92%), Pires (92%), Schadone (91%), Sherlock (91%), Kennedy (91%), McCauley (91%), Crowley (90%), McNamara (90%), and Lally (90%).

Those least likely to vote with the leadership were: Gorham (38%), Scott (38%), Pisaturo (40%), DeSimone (41%), C. Levesque (41%), G. Levesque (42%), Wasylyk (44%), Watson (43%), Smith (46%), Kelley (47%), and Mumford (47%).

In 2000, the average House legislator voted with the leadership 74% of the time on major contested votes, the same as in 1999. This is in contrast to the Senate where in 2000, the average Senator voted with the leadership 67%, which was down from 73% in 1999.

The methodology employed in this study was to take major contested votes in the House over the past two years, identify the position of Harwood and his top supporters, and tabulate whether other members voted for or against the leadership. A list of votes included in the leadership agreement score can be found on the website www.InsidePolitics.org under Billtracker (How They Voted in the RI House).

 
House 1999 2000
Abdullah-Odiase 71% 72%
Aiken 68 85
Ajello 54 66
Almeida 74 75
Amaral 52 51
Anderson M. 46 56
Anderson S. 75 78
Barr 87 94
Benoit 78 84
Benson 88 59
Bramley 55 55
Burlingame 46 60
Callahan 48 60
Cambio 88 79
Caprio NA 98
Carpenter 84 84
Carroll 51 59
Carter 96 77
Cicilline 67 65
Coderre 92 84
Coelho 88 74
Corvese 94 87
Costantino 78 68
Crowley 86 90
Dennigan 77 92
DeSimone 42 41
Faria 94 82
Farrell 96 100
Ferguson 90 92
Flaherty 98 84
Fleury 64 70
Fox 88 76
Garabedian 64 79
Garvey 87 92
George 71 70
Giannini 92 92
Ginaitt 84 88
Gorham 43 38
Heffner 79 65
Henseler 98 84
Hetherington 70 77
Hogan 76 82
Inman 98 87
Iwuc 89 83
Jacquard 77 75
Kelley 58 47
Kelso 85 NA
Kennedy 92 91
Kilmartin 75 80
Knickle 73 77
 Lally 92   90
 Lanzi  63  62
 Larisa  83  NA
 Levesque C.  50  41
 Levesque G.  48  42
 Lewiss  78  81
 Lima  61  53
 Long  47  56
 Lopes  75  82
 Lowe  68  74
 Maher  79  76
 Malik  82  85
Martineau  98  97
McCauley  92  91
McNamara  71  90
Menard  95  95
Millard  52  62
Montanaro  49  48
Moran NA 77
Moura  84  87
Mumford  66  47
Munschy  92  79
Murphy  69  83
Naughton  90  84
Palangino  92  86
Palumbo  87  73
Picard  72  70
Pires  83  92
Pisaturo  40  40
Quick  74  58
Rabideau  33  53
Reilly  84  78
Rose  80  85
Russo  82  73
San Bento  96  78
Savage  33  59
Schadone  94  91
Scott  35  38
Shavers  87  80
Sherlock  91  91
Simonian  81  72
Slater  82  77
Smith  38  46
Sullivan  86  71
Thompson  80  82
Vieira  84  84
Voccola  71  75
Wasylyk  45  44
Watson  49  43
Williams  56  69
Williamson  68  87
Winfield  95  95